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Richard Baxter's penitent confession and his necessary vindication in answer to a book called…
Richard Baxter's penitent confession and his necessary vindication in answer to a book called The second part of the mischiefs of separation, written by an unnamed author with a preface to Mr. Cantianus D. Minimis, in answer to his letter which extorted this publication.
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1691
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.
But it is such a self-humbling and self-loathing sense of the inward badness of our Souls, original and further contracted, privative and positive, and of the sinfulness of our Lives by Omissions and Actions, against God, our selves and others, as proceedeth from a rooted Belief of Gods Law, and Gospel, which Christ by his Holy Spirit maketh effectual, to turn the Soul to the Predominant Love and Choice of God as our God, and Christ as our Saviour, and the Holy Ghost as our Sanctifier, and of Heavenly Perfection as our highest End and Hope, and the revealed will of God as our Rule, holy Obedience as our Practice, and the Communion of Saints as our desired Society; with so prevalent a hatred and enmity to sin, that it reigneth not in us, nor live we in any that is inconsistent with the said predominant Love of God and Goodness.] This is the Repentance which I here treat of, though lower degrees that bring Men but to a common Humiliation, Confession and Amendment be better than none, and may tend to prevent some Judgments of God, and prepare Men for better.
But it is such a self-humbling and self-loathing sense of the inward badness of our Souls, original and further contracted, privative and postive, and of the sinfulness of our Lives by Omissions and Actions, against God, our selves and others, as proceedeth from a rooted Belief of Gods Law, and Gospel, which Christ by his Holy Spirit maketh effectual, to turn the Soul to the Predominant Love and Choice of God as our God, and Christ as our Saviour, and the Holy Ghost as our Sanctifier, and of Heavenly Perfection as our highest End and Hope, and the revealed will of God as our Rule, holy Obedience as our Practice, and the Communion of Saints as our desired Society; with so prevalent a hatred and enmity to sin, that it reigneth not in us, nor live we in any that is inconsistent with the sald predominant Love of God and Goodness.] This is the Repentance which I here treat of, though lower degrees that bring Men but to a common Humiliation, Confession and Amendment be better than none, and may tend to prevent some Judgments of God, and prepare Men for better.
§ 2. There is great Reason that without Repentance, we should not expect Deliverance and Salvation: For,