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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.
17. Consider also that Resolution maketh works easy and successful. The resolute Army is seldom conquered.. A resolute traveller will go through with his journey; and it is easier to himself: His spirits are excited; and doing it with vivacity, he findeth less trouble in it. A slow and lazy pace doth sometime soonest weary us. A slow motion is most easily stopped, when a swift one bears down that which would resist it. A man that Resolvedly sets himself to the Work of God, and is past any further deliberating of the ⟨p. 499⟩matter, and is at a point with all the world, will make a pleasure of that which will stop and stall an unresolved professor. Resolve therefore for your own success and ease.
17. Consider also that Rosolution maketh works easie and successfull. The resolute Army is seldom couquered.. A resolute travailer will go through with his journy; and it is easier to himself: His spirits are excited; and doing it with vivacity, he findeth less trouble in it. A slow and lazy pase doth sometime soonest weary us. A slow motion is most easily stopt, when a swift one bears down that which would resist it. A man that Resolvedly sets himself to the Work of God, and is past any further deliberating of the ⟨p. 499⟩matter, and is at a point with all the world, will make a pleasure of that which will stop and stall an unresolved professour. Resolve therefore for your own success and ease.
I tell you, by Resolving it is that you must conquer, and by conquering, you must obtain the Crown. The unresolved are wavering at every assault, like cowardly soldiers, even ready to run before they fight. They will not bear the cost or labour: they are soon aweary: They cannot say Nay to an old Companion, or a tempting bait. But the Resolved breaks through all, and treads that under his feet as dirt, which another sells his Soul for. If he meet with reproaches and scorns from men, he remembereth that Christ foretold him this, and suffered much more of the like before him. If his friends turn enemies for the Gospel sake, he saith, I was told of this before, even that I must be hated of all men for Christ. If he be ticed by lewd and wanton company, he saith as David,