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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.
19. Consider I beseech you, how much it doth concern your selves, to have this question well and speedily Resolved. God asketh you, whether you will be Converted and Sanctified or not? Resolve this question, and you Resolve your selves of a great many more that depend upon it. ⟨p. 503⟩The answer to this, must be the answer to the rest. If the question were, whether you will be pardoned or no? Whether you will live in Heaven or Hell for ever? Whether you will dwell with God and Angels, or with Devils? You would not be long in answering this. You would Resolve without an hours delay. Why? this is the question Sirs: but the answer to it, must be the answer to the first question: For without Sanctification, there is no Salvation: If you will not be Converted, you shall be condemned whether you will or no: For God hath Resolved of this already, and there is no resisting the Resolution of God. The true state of the question is, Whether you will Turn, or burn: choose you whether; for it must be one. O therefore if you will but Resolve Christ and us this one question, that you will be Converted, Christ will Resolve you the principal questions, that concern you in the world, even whether you shall be pardoned or saved, and where, and with whom, you must live for ever.
19. Consider I beseech you, how much it doth concern your selves, to have this question well and speedily Resolved. God asketh you, whether you will be Converted and Sanctisied or not? Resolve this question, and you Resolve your selves of a great many more that depend upon it. ⟨p. 503⟩The answer to this, must be the answer to the rest. If the question were, whether you will be pardoned or no? Whether you will live in Heaven or Hell for ever? Whether you will dwell with God and Angels, or with Devils? You would not be long in answering this. You would Resolve without an hours delay. Why? this is the question Sirs: but the answer to it, must be the answer to the first question: For without Sanctification, there is no Salvation: If you will not be Converted, you shall be condemned whether you will or no: For God hath Resolved of this already, and there is no resisting the Resolution of God. The true state of the question is, Whether you will Turn, or burn: choose you whether; for it must be one. O therefore if you will but Resolve Christ and us this one question, that you will be Converted, Christ will Resolve you the principal questions, that concern you in the world, even whether you shall be pardoned or saved, and where, and with whom, you must live for ever.