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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.
Thus if you will declare your Resolutions to others, and seek to win them, you may possibly do them good; but however you will be the deeper engaged to God your selves.
Yea, though I would have no ostentation of Conversion, nothing done rashly in public, nor without the advice of a faithful Minister beforehand; yet with these Cautions, I must say, that it's a shame that we hear no more in public of the Conversion of sinners. As Baptism is to be in public, that the Congregation may witness your engagement, and pray for you, and rejoice at the receiving of a member; So the solemn renewing of the same Covenant by Repentance after a wicked life, should ordinarily be in public, to give warning to others to avoid the sin, and to give God the honour, and to have the Prayers of the Church, and to satisfy them of our Repentance, that they may have Communion with us. The Papists do more offend (of the two) in so much confining Confession ⟨p. 520⟩and Penitence, to the Priests ear in secret, and not bringing it before the Church, then they do in making a Sacrament of it. I wonder that people should every day thrust into our hands their requests to pray for them when they are sick, and that it is so rare a matter to have any desire our Prayers, for the pardon of all the sins of their natural, unconverted state.
Yea, though I would have no ostentation of Conversion, nothing done rashly in publike, nor without the advice of a faithfull Minister beforehand; yet with these Cautions, I must say, that it's a shame that we hear no more in publike of the Conversion of sinners. As Baptism is to be in publike, that the Congregation may witness your engagement, and pray for you, and rejoice at the receiving of a member; So the solemn renewing of the same Covenant by Repentance after a wicked life, should ordinarily be in publike, to give warning to others to avoid the sinne, and to give God the honour, and to have the Prayers of the Church, and to satisfy them of our Repentance, that they may have Communion with us. The Papists do more offend (of the two) in so much confining Confession ⟨p. 520⟩