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Directions and persuasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…Directions and perswasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation…
Directions and persuasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation of souls, and of those scandals, heresies, and desperate apostasies that are the consequents of a counterfeit, or superficial change / by Richard Baxter.Directions and perswasions to a sound conversion for prevention of that deceit and damnation of souls, and of those scandals, heresies, and desperate apostasies that are the consequents of a counterfeit, or superficial change / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by A.M. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
Directions to Sinners that are purposed to Turn, and are under the… › Direction 7
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If you are but truly willing to be his Own People, he is certainly willing to be your Own Saviour and your Own God, Not that you can have such a propriety in him, as he hath in you. But in these Relations he will be your Own; and Glory, and Help, and Salvation shall be yours. And you may well conclude that God, even our Own God, shall bless ⟨p. 323⟩us, Psal. 6. 7, 6. There is much comfort may be fetched from that in Luke 15. 31. Though Parables must not be stretched too far: Son thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
If you are but truly willing to be his Own People, he is certainly willing to be your Own Saviour and your Own God, Not that you can have such a propriety in him, as he hath in you. But in these Relations he will be your Own; and Glory, and Help, and Salvation shall be yours. And you may well conclude that God, even our Own God, shall bless ⟨p. 323⟩us, Psal. 6. 7, 6. There is much comfort may be fetcht from that in Luke 15. 31. Though Parables must not be strecht too far: Sonne thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
And upon this ground it is, that we have the greater encouragement, to believe that God accepteth of our very Infants themselves; because it is his Will that they should be Devoted, engaged, and dedicated to him: And that which he would have us dedicate and offer to him, he will surely accept in that Relation to which he would have it offered.