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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.
I know Mr. Bilney the Martyr was offended with this comparison, because he thought it was against Free Grace. But comparisons extend not to every respect: There are two things in your sins to be undone: the one is the Guilt, and the other is the Habit and power of sin: the first indeed is done away, when you are Converted: but at the cost of Christ, which should not be made light of: And yet some scars may be left behind, and such twigs of Gods Rod may fall upon you as shall make you wish you had come sooner in. And for the habit of sin, though Conversion break the heart of it, yet will it live and trouble you while you live: and those sins that now you are strengthening by your delays, will be thorns in your sides, and rebels in your Country, and find you work as long as you live. And thus I may well say that ⟨p. 434⟩you are doing that while you delay, that must be long in undoing, and will not be undone so easily as it is done; and you are going on that way, that must be all trod backward.
I know Mr. Bilney the Martyr was offended with this comparison, because he thought it was against Free Grace. But comparisons extend not to every respect: There are two things in your sins to be undone: the one is the Guilt, and the other is the Habit and power of sin: the first indeed is done away, when you are Converted: but at the cost of Christ, which should not be made light of: And yet some scarres may be left behind, and such twigs of Gods Rod may fall upon you as shall make you wish you had come sooner in. And for the habit of sinne, though Conversion break the heart of it, yet will it live and trouble you while you live: and those sinnes that now you are strengthning by your delaies, will be thorns in your sides, and rebels in your Country, and find you work as long as you live. And thus I may well say that ⟨p. 434⟩you are doing that while you delay, that must be long in undoing, and will not be undone so easily as it is done; and you are going on that way, that must be all trod backward.