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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 12
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.
DIRECT. XII. The last Direction that I shall give you, for preventing your miscarriage in the work of Conversion is this: Stop not in weak and wavering Purposes, and faint attempts: but see that you be groundedly, unreservedly, and habitually (or firmly) Resolved.
There are many good thoughts, and meanings in the Soul, before Resolution: but you are not truly Converted, till you are Resolved, and thus Resolved as is here expressed. Here I shall show you, 1. What this Resolution is. 2. Why it is so necessary: and 3. I shall urge you to resolve: and 4. I shall Direct you in it.
There are many good thoughts, and meanings in the Soul, before Resolution: but you are not truly Converted, till you are Resolved, and thus Resolved as is here exprest. Here I shall shew you, 1. What this Resolution is. 2. Why it is so necessary: and 3. I shall urge you to resolve: and 4. I shall Direct you in it.
1. Resolution is the firm or prevalent Determination of the Will upon Deliberation,
In opening this Definition, I shall first show you how we are led up to Resolution by Deliberation: and 2. What is this Determination of the will.