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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 11
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.
Can you delay to come into your Fathers Family; into the Vineyard of the Lord; into the Kingdom of God on Earth; to be fellow Citizens of the Saints, and of the Household of God; to have the Pardon of all your sins, and the sealed Promise of Everlasting Glory? Why Sirs, when you are called on to Turn, you are called to the Porch of Heaven; into the beginning of Salvation: And will you delay to accept Everlasting life?
Can you delay to come into your Fathers Family; into the Vineyard of the Lord; into the Kingdom of God on Earth; to be fellow Citizens of the Saints, and of the Houshould of God; to have the Pardon of all your sinnes, and the sealed Promise of Everlasting Glory? Why Sirs, when you are called on to Turn, you are called to the Porch of Heaven; into the beginning of Salvation: And will you delay to accept Everlasting life?
3. Consider also from what you are called to Turn: and then judg whether there be any reason of delay. It is from the Devil your Enemy: from the love of a deceitful world; from the seducement of corrupted brutish flesh: It is from sin the greatest evil: What is there in sin that you should delay to part with it? Is there any good in it? Or what hath it ever done for you, that you should love it? Did it ever do you good? Or did it ever do any man good? It is the deadly enemy of Christ and you, that caused his death, and will cause yours, and is working for your damnation, if ⟨p. 387⟩converting and pardoning Grace prevent it not: And are you loath to leave it? It is the cause of all the miseries of the world, of all the sorrow that ever did befall you, and the cause of the damnation of them that perish: And do you delay to part with it.
3. Consider also from what you are called to Turn: and then judg whether there be any reason of delay. It is from the Devil your Enemy: from the love of a deceitfull world; from the seducement of corrupted bruitish flesh: It is from sinne the greatest evil: What is there in sinne that you should delay to part with it? Is there any good in it? Or what hath it ever done for you, that you should love it? Did it ever do you good? Or did it ever do any man good? It is the deadly enemy of Christ and you, that caused his death, and will cause yours, and is working for your damnation, if