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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.
4. Moreover, if you are not firmly ⟨p. 451⟩Resolved, your Affections will not be sincere and steadfast. For all the Affections are such as to their sincerity, as the Will is, which doth excite or command them And nothing is more mutable then the Affections in themselves considered: They will be hot to day, and cold to morrow, if they be not rooted in the firm Resolution of the Will, which is the life of them.
4. Moreover, if you are not firmly ⟨p. 451⟩Resolved, your Affections will not be sincere and stedfast. For all the Affections are such as to their sincerity, as the Will is, which doth excite or command them And nothing is more mutable then the Affections in themselves considered: They will be hot to day, and cold to morrow, if they be not rooted in the firm Resolution of the Will, which is the life of them.
5. Lastly, Without a firm Resolution, there can be no faithful obedience and execution, of the Will of God. For if men be not Resolved, they will heavily go on, and lazily proceed, and easily come off: For their hands go to work without their hearts. It is the greatest work in all the world, that God calls you to; and none but the Resolved are able to go through with it. Of which we shall give you a fuller account anon.
5. Lastly, Without a firm Resolution, there can be no faithfull obedience and execution, of the Will of God. For if men be not Resolved, they will heavily go on, and lazilie proceed, and easily come off: For their hands go to work without their hearts. It is the greatest work in all the world, that God calls you to; and none but the Resolved are able to go through with it. Of which we shall give you a fuller account anon.