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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. And Satan himself will do all that he can to hinder you when he sees you ready to Resolve. He knows that he must bestir him now or never. You never put him to it indeed till you are Resolving to forsake him. One block or other he will be sure then to cast in your way; Either he tells you, it is but folly and melancholy to trouble your self with these matters: or that you may be saved without all this ado: or that God is more merciful then to cast away all that be not Sanctified: or that Godliness doth but trouble and distract people: and that the professors of it are secretly no better then others; and that it is but Hypocrisy for them to make such a stir with their Religion; and that we must be moderate in our Godliness, and take heed of being Godly over much: A hundred such foolish suggestions as these, the Devil hath at hand to cast in your way, when he seeth you ready to Resolve.
7. And Satan himself will do all that he can to hinder you when he sees you ready to Resolve. He knows that he must bestirre him now or never. You never put him to it indeed till you are Resolving to forsake him. One block or other he will be sure then to cast in your way; Either he tels you, it is but folly and melancholy to trouble your self with these matters: or that you may be saved without all this ado: or that God is more mercifull then to cast away all that be not Sanctified: or that Godliness doth but trouble and distract people: and that the professours of it are secretly no better then others; and that it is but Hypocrisie for them to make such a stir with their Religion; and that we must be moderate in our Godliness, and take heed of being Godly over much: A hundred such foolish suggestions as these, the Devil hath at hand to cast in your way, when he seeth you ready to Resolve.
If these will not serve, he will set some of his wicked Disciples on railing ⟨p. 510⟩or deriding you! And perhaps some cunning fool a cavilling with you, to see if they can overwit you, and draw you back.
If these will not serve, he will set some of his wicked Disciples on railing