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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.
And thus I have given you twenty Considerations to persuade you, if it may be, presently to Resolve. I am sure there is truth, and reason, and weight in them; but what good they will do you I am not sure, because I know not how you will receive them.
And thus I have given you twenty Considerations to perswade you, if it may be, presently to Resolve. I am sure there is truth, and reason, and weight in them; but what good they will do you I am not sure, because I know not how you will receive them.
IV. And now I come to the last part of my task; which is to Direct you how to perform the work that I have persuaded you to. But because it is merely the Determination of the Will, it is persuasion that must do more to the work then Direction. And therefore I shall only desire ⟨p. 506⟩you to look back upon the qualifications of sound Resolution, which I before laid down to you, and then take heed of the hinderances in your way, and so set your selves to do your duty.
IV. And now I come to the last part of my task; which is to Direct you how to perform the work that I have perswaded you to. But because it is meerly the Determination of the Will, it is presuasion that must do more to the work then Direction. And therefore I shall only desire ⟨p. 506⟩you to look back upon the qualifications of sound Resolution, which I before laid down to you, and then take heed of the hinderances in your way, and so set your selves to do your duty.
Remember that I before told you, that it it is not a holy, saving Resolution, unless it be 1. Entire, for the matter of it, comprehending all that is Essential to Christianity: 2. And unless you Resolve upon present obedience without delay: 3. And also unless it be Absolute and peremptory, taking Christ for better and worse, without any reserve: 4. And unless it be well grounded: 5. And unless it be built on the strength of Christ, and not only a carnal confidence of your own: 6. And unless it be habitual and firm, and become your ordinary frame and bias, and as it were the new Nature, and inclination of your Souls. By this much you see already what manner of Resolution it is that you must have.