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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.
7. Me thinks also it should somewhat quicken you to Resolve, when you consider what a case you had now been in, if death had found you unresolved. For if you are unresolved, you are unsanctified; and if not Sanctified, you are not pardoned, or justified, and therefore undoubtedly you had been past all help, in endless misery, if you had died all this while, before you were firmly Resolved for God. O what a dangerous ticklish condition have you stood in all this while? ⟨p. 476⟩What wise man would live an hour in such a case for all the world? For fear lest that hour should be his last. And yet would you stay longer in it? and still are you unresolved?
7. Me thinks also it should somewhat quicken you to Resolve, when you consider what a case you had now been in, if death had found you unresolved. For if you are unresolved, you are unsanctified; and if not Sanctified, you are not pardoned, or justified, and therefore undoubtedly you had been past all help, in endless misery, if you had died all this while, before you were firmly Rosolved for God. O what a dangerous ticklish condition have you stood in all this while? ⟨p. 476⟩What wise man would live an hour in such a case for all the world? For feare lest that hour should be his last. And yet would you stay longer in it? and still are you unresolved?
8. Believe it, Christ will not own you as his servants, nor trust you what ever promises you may make him, as long as you are unresolved. Who will take a servant that is not resolved to do any service? Who will take an unresolved person if he knows it, as a wife, or friend into his intimate love? And indeed you are not truly Christians till you are Resolved to take Christ for better and worse. What ever state is short of this, is also short of true Sanctification, and will fall short of Heaven. Christ is Resolved to stick to his servants, and he will have no servants, that be not resolved to stick to him.