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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 10
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.
He never was Religious from a true Predominant Love to God and a holy life, but for fear of Hell, and for other inferior respects.
He never was Religious from a true Predominant Love to God and a holy life, but for fear of Hell, and for other inferiour respects.
Remember this when you have precious opportunities before you, of doing or receiving good, and when you see that you have leave to take these opportunities, and yet you draw back, and are questioning, How we can prove it to be your duty; or that you cannot be saved without it? Do not these Questions plainly show that you Love not the work, and Delight not in a holy life; ⟨p. 377⟩and that you had rather let it alone? Are you not blind if you see not this is in your selves? Yea, it's plain that you have such an averseness or hatred to God and a holy course of life, that if you did but know what shift to make to scape damnation, you would fly away from God and Holiness, and have as little to do with them as you can. Your Questions and Cavils do plainly declare this wicked emnity and backwardness of your hearts: and consequently show how far you are from true Conversion.
Remember this when you have precious opportunities before you, of doing or receiving good, and when you see that you have leave to take these opportunities, and yet you draw back, and are questioning, How we can prove it to be your duty; or that you cannot be saved without it? Do not these Questions plainly shew that you Love not the work, and Delight not in a holy life; ⟨p. 377⟩and that you had rather let it alone? Are you not blind if you see not this is in your selves? Yea, it's plain that you have such an aversness or hatred to God and a holy course of life, that if you did but know what shift to make to scape damnation, you would fly away from God and Holiness, and have as little to do with them as you can. Your Questions and Cavils do plainly declare this wicked emnity and backwardness of your hearts: and consequently shew how farre you are from true Conversion.