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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.
24. Have you any hopes of Gods acceptance, and your Salvation, or not? If you have such hopes, that when you turn, God will pardon all your sins, and give you Everlasting Life: is it think you an ingenious thing to desire to offend him yet a little longer, from whom you expect such exceeding Mercy, and Glory as you do? Have you the faces to speak out what is in your hearts, and practice; and to go to God with such words as these; Lord I know I cannot have the pardon of one sin, without the Blood of Christ, and the riches of thy Mercy: Nor can I be saved from Hell without it: But yet I hope for all this from thy Grace: I beseech ⟨p. 405⟩thee let me live a little longer in my sins; a little longer let me trample on the Blood of Christ, and despise thy commands, and abuse thy Mercies; a little longer let me spit in the face of thy Goodness, and prefer the flesh, and the world before thee, and then pardon me all that ever I did, and take me into Glory. Could you for shame put up such a request to God as this? If you could, you are past shame: If not, then do not practise and desire that, which you cannot for shame speak out and request.
24. Have you any hopes of Gods acceptance, and your Salvation, or not? If you have such hopes, that when you turn, God will pardon all your sinnes, and give you Everlasting Life: is it think you an ingenious thing to desire to offend him yet a little longer, from whom you expect such exceeding Mercy, and Glory as you do? Have you the faces to speak out what is in your hearts, and practice; and to go to God with such words as these; Lord I know I cannot have the pardon of one sinne, without the Blood of Christ, and the riches of thy Mercy: Nor can I be saved from Hell without it: But yet I hope for all this from thy Grace: I beseech ⟨p. 405⟩thee let me live a little longer in my sinnes; a little longer let me trample on the Blood of Christ, and despise thy commands, and abuse thy Mercies; a little longer let me spit in the face of thy Goodness, and prefer the flesh, and the world before thee, and then pardon me all that ever I did, and take me into Glory. Could you for shame put up such a request to God as this? If you could, you are past shame: If not, then do not practise and desire that, which you cannot for shame speak out and request.