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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.
29. Moreover, When you are in trouble and necessity, you are then in hast for deliverance, and relief. Then you think every day a week till your danger or suffering be past. If you be under the pain of a disease, or in danger of death, or ⟨p. 410⟩under poverty, or oppression, or disgrace, you would have God relieve you without delay: And yet you will not turn to him without delay. Then you are ready to cry out, How long, Lord, how long till deliverance come: but you will not hear God, when he crieth to you in your sins, How long will it be ere you turn from your transgressions: when shall it once be? When you are to receive any outward deliverance, you care not how soon; the sooner the better: but when you are to turn to God, and receive his Grace, and title to Glory, then you care not how late, as if you had no mind of it. Can you for shame beg of God to hasten your deliverances, when you remember your delays, and still continue to trifle with him, and draw back?
29. Moreover, When you are in trouble and necessity, you are then in hast for deliverance, and relief. Then you think every day a week till your danger or suffering be past. If you be under the pain of a disease, or in danger of death, or ⟨p. 410⟩under poverty, or oppression, or disgrace, you would have God relieve you without delay: And yet you will not turn to him without delay. Then you are ready to cry out, How long, Lord, how long till deliverance come: but you will not hear God, when he cryeth to you in your sinnes, How long will it be ere you turn from your transgressions: when shall it once be? When you are to receive any outward deliverance, you care not how soon; the sooner the better: but when you are to turn to God, and receive his Grace, and title to Glory, then you care not how late, as if you had no mind of it. Can you for shame beg of God to hasten your deliverances, when you remember your delaies, and still continue to trifle with him, and draw back?
30. Your present prosperity, and worldly delights are posting away without Delay: and should you delay to make sure of better in their stead? Time is going; and health is going; youth is going: yea life is going: your riches are taking wing: your fleshly pleasures do perish in the very using: Your meat, and drink is sweet to you little longer