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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 8
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10. Lastly, True Converts are steadfast, but Opinionists are usually mutable, and unconstant. The sound Convert receiveth the greatest Truths, and receives the Goodness as well as the Truth; and takes it not only into the Head, but into the Heart, and giveth it deep rooting: He closeth with God as his only felicity, ⟨p. 345⟩and with Christ as his only Refuge, and Redeemer, and with Heaven as the sure everlasting Glory, to which the world is but a mole-hill, or a dungeon. No wonder then if this man be steadfast, and unmovable, always abounding in the Work of the Lord, that knows his Labour is not in vain in the Lord, 1 Cor. 15. 58.
10. Lastly, True Converts are stedfast, but Opinionists are usually mutable, and unconstant. The sound Convert receiveth the greatest Truths, and receives the Goodness as well as the Truth; and takes it not only into the Head, but into the Heart, and giveth it deep rooting: He closeth with God as his only felicity, ⟨p. 345⟩and with Christ as his only Refuge, and Redeemer, and with Heaven as the sure everlasting Glory, to which the world is but a mole-hill, or a dungeon. No wonder then if this man be stedfast, and unmovable, alwaies abounding in the Work of the Lord, that knows his Labour is not in vain in the Lord, 1 Cor. 15. 58.
But the Opinionist, either fasteneth on smaller matters, or else holdeth these great matters but as bare Opinions, and therefore they have no such interest in his heart, as to stablish him against shaking trials, and temptations: For two sort• there are of these Opinionists: the on• sort have no Zeal for their own Opinions; because they are but Opinions: And these are time-servers; and will change as the King, or their Land-lords change; and fit their Opinions to their worldly Ends. The other sort have a burning Zeal for their Opinions; and these use to wander from one Opinion to another, not able to resist the, subtlety of seducers; but are taken with fair, and plausible reasonings; not able to see into the heart of the cause. These are as Children tossed to and fro, and carried about with