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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.
And it is not God only, but his Servants, and Creatures, and Ordinances, that all are waiting on you. The Angels stay for the joy that is due to them upon your Conversion. Ministers are studying, and preaching, and praying for you. Godly neighbours are praying, and longing for your change. The Springs, and rivers are flowing for you: The winds blow for you: The Sun shines for you: The clouds rain for you: The Earth bears fruit for you: The beasts must labour, and suffer, and die for you: All things are doing, and would you stand still? or else do worse. What hast makes the Sun about the world, to return in its time to give you light? What hast make other Creatures in your service? And yet must you delay. Must God stay, and Christ, and the Spirit stay; Must Angels stay, must Ministers stay, must the Godly stay, and the Ordinances stay, and all the Creatures stay your leisure, while you are abusing God, and your Souls, and others, and while you delay, as if it were too soon to turn?
And it is not God only, but his Servants, and Creatures, and Ordinances, that all are waiting on you. The Angels stay for the joy that is due to them upon your Conversion. Ministers are studying, and preaching, and praying for you. Godly neighbours are praying, and longing for your change. The Springs, and rivers are flowing for you: The winds blow for you: The Sunne shines for you: The clouds raine for you: The Earth bears fruit for you: The beasts must labour, and suffer, and die for you: All things are doing, and would you stand still? or else do worse. What hast makes the Sunne about the world, to return in its time to give you light? What hast make other Creatures in your service? And yet must you delay. Must God stay, and Christ, and the Spirit stay; Must Angels stay, must Ministers stay, must the Godly stay, and the Ordinances stay, and all the Creatures stay your leasure, while you are abusing God, and your Souls, and others, and while you delay, as if it were too soon to turn?
27. Consider, that when you were lost, the Son of God did not delay the ⟨p. 409⟩work of your Redemption. He presently undertook it, and turned by the stroke of damning Justice. In the fullness of time he came and performed what he undertook: he failed not one day of his appointed time. And will you now Delay to accept the benefit, and turn to him? Must he make such hast to save you at so dear a rate, and now will you delay to be saved.