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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.
I would here seriously advise all those that it concerneth that when God hath showed them so great a Mercy as to Convert them, and make them New Creatures, they would go to their faithful Minister, and by his advice, put up such a bill as this, Such a man of this parish, having long lived in blindness, and deadness, and ungodliness, (and name the particular sins, if they were publicly known,) and being by the great Mercy of God convinced of his sin, and misery; and sustained with some hopes of Mercy by the Blood and Merits of Jesus Christ, and being now Resolved by the Grace of God, to forsake this fleshly, worldly life, and to give up himself to Christ and Holiness, doth earnestly entreat the Church to pray for him, that his many, and heinous sins ⟨p. 521⟩may be all forgiven, and that God would again receive him into Mercy, and that he may hold on in Faith and Holiness to the last, and never turn again to the course of his iniquity.
I would here seriously advise all those that it concerneth that when God hath shewed them so great a Mercy as to Convert them, and make them New Creatures, they would go to their faithfull Minister, and by his advice, put up such a bill as this, Such a man of this parish, having long lived in blindness, and deadness, and ungodliness, (and name the particular sinnes, if they were publickly known,) and being by the great Mercy of God convinced of his sinne, and misery; and sustained with some hopes of Mercy by the Blood and Merits of Jesus Christ, and being now Resolved by the Grace of God, to forsake this fleshly, worldly life, and to give up himself to Christ and Holiness, doth earnestly intreat the Church to pray for him, that his many, and hainous sins ⟨p. 521⟩may be all forgiven, and that God would againe receive him into Mercy, and that he may hold on in Faith and Holiness to the last, and never turn again to the course of his iniquity.
And if the Minister think it meet, refuse not to make your selves an open Confession of your former life of sin and misery, and to Profess openly your Resolution to walk with God for the time to come.