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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
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.
5. Consider also, What an admirable help and advantage it will be to you through the whole course of your lives, if the work of Conversion be once throughly wrought. I will show you this in some Particulars.
5. Consider also, What an admirable help and advantage it will be to you through the whole course of your lives, if the work of Conversion be once throughly wrought. I will shew you this in some Particulars.
First, It will be an excellent help to your understandings, against the grosser Errors of the world, and will stablish you in the truth much more then mere Arguments can do: For you will be able to speak for the truth from feeling and experience: He that hath the Law written both in his Bible and in his heart, is likely to hold it faster then he that hath it in his Bible alone. But of this I have spoken already in my Treatise against Infidelity, Part 2.
First, It will be an excellent help to your understandings, against the grosser Errors of the world, and will stablish you in the truth much more then meer Arguments can do: For you will be able to speak for the truth from feelling and experience: He that hath the Law written both in his Bible and in his heart, is likely to hold it faster then he that hath it in his Bible alore. But of this I have spoken already in my Treatise against Infidelity, Part 2.
Secondly, If you be but throughly Converted, you will have that within you which will be a a continual help against temptations: You have not only experience of the mischief of sinning, and the folly of those Reasons that are ⟨p. 27⟩brought for its defence; but you have also a new nature, which is against the temptation, as life is against poison; and as it is a great disadvantage to the Law of Christ, that it speaks against the nature of the ungodly; so is it a disadvantage to the temptations of the Devil, that they would draw a Christian against his new nature. You have that within you that will plead more effectually against sensuality, uncharitableness, pride, or worldliness, or any the like sin, then reason or learning alone can do. (As in the forecited Book I have further manifested.)