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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.
48. And me thinks if it were but this, it should terrify you from your Delays; that it is likely to make your Conversion more grievous, if you should have so great Mercy from God, as after all to be Converted. There is very few scape that are so exceeding long in travail: but if you come to the birth, it's like to be with double pain. For God must send either some grievous affliction to fire and frighten you out of your sins, or else some terrible gripes of Conscience, that shall make you groan, and groan again, in the feeling of your folly. The pangs and throws of Conscience, in the work of Conversion, are far more grievous in some then in others. Some are even on the wrack, and almost brought besides their wits, and the next step to desperation, with horror of Soul, and the sense of the Wrath of God; so that they lie in doubts and complaints many a year together; and think that they are even forsaken of God. And to Delay your Conversion, ⟨p. 435⟩is the way to draw on either this or worse.
48. And me thinks if it were but this, it should terrifie you from your Delaies; that it is likely to make your Conversion more grievous, if you should have so great Mercy from God, as after all to be Converted. There is very few scape that are so exceeding long in travaile: but if you come to the birth, it's like to be with double paine. For God must send either some grievous affliction to fire and frighten you out of your sinnes, or else some terrible gripes of Conscience, that shall make you groane, and groane againe, in the feeling of your folly. The pangs and throws of Conscience, in the work of Conversion, are far more grievous in some then in others. Some are even on the wrack, and almost brought besides their wits, and the next step to desperation, with horror of Soul, and the sense of the Wrath of God; so that they lie in doubts and complaints many a year together; and think that they are even forsaken of God. And to Delay your Conversion, ⟨p. 435⟩is the way to draw on either this or worse.