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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.
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.
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 byas, 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.
The next thing is, to advise you of the hinderances that you may avoid them. 1. The principal hinderance of Resolution is Secret Unbelief; when Everlasting life is taken but as an uncertainty, or men have no more but a slight Opinion ⟨p. 507⟩of it. The Cure of this disease, I have often, and a little before delivered you.
The next thing is, to advise you of the hinderances that you may avoid them. 1. The principal hinderance of Resolution is Secret Vnbelief; when Everlasting life is taken but as an uncertainty, or men have no more but a slight Opinion ⟨p. 507⟩