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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.
8. Consider also I beseech you, if you ever mean to turn, what it i• that you stay for. Do you think to bring down Christ and Heaven to lower rates, and to be saved hereafter with less ado? Sure you cannot be so foolish: For God will be still the same; and Christ the same; and his Promise hath still the same Condition, which he will never Change; and Godliness will be the same, and as much against your carnal interest hereafter as it is now? When you have looked about you never so long, you'll never find a fairer or nearer way; but this same way you must go or perish. If you cannot leave sin now, how should you leave it then: It will be still as sweet to your flesh as now: Or if one sin grow stale by the decay of nature, another that's worse will spring up in its stead, and though the acts abate, they ⟨p. 391⟩will all live still at the root; for sin was never mortified by age. So that if ever you will turn, you may best turn now.
8. Consider also I beseech you, if you ever mean to turn, what it i• that you stay for. Do you think to bring down Christ and Heaven to lower rates, and to be saved hereafter with less adoe? Sure you cannot be so foolish: For God will be still the same; and Christ the same; and his Promise hath still the same Condition, which he will never Change; and Godliness will be the same, and as much against your carnall interest hereafter as it is now? When you have lookt about you never so long, you'l never find a fairer or nearer way; but this same way you must go or perish. If you cannot leave sinne now, how should you leave it then: It will be still as sweet to your flesh as now: Or if one sinne grow stale by the decay of nature, another that's worse will spring up in its stead, and though the acts abate, they ⟨p. 391⟩will all live still at the root; for sinne was never mortified by age. So that if ever you will turn, you may best turn now.