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The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32…
The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32 directions : written for the use of a troubled friend / and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Underhil, 1653
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.
4. Are you so throughly convinced of the worth of everlasting Happiness, and the intolerableness of everlasting misery, and the truth of both, and of the sovereignty of God the Father and Christ the Redeemer, and your many engagements to him, and of the necessity and good of obeying, and the evil of sinning; that you are truly willing, that is, have a settled resolution, to cleave t• Christ and obey him, in the deerest, most disgraceful, painful, hazardous, flesh-displeasing Duties; even though it should cost you the loss of all your worldly enjoyments, and your life?
4. Are you so throughly convinced of the worth of everlasting Happiness, and the intollerableness of everlasting misery, and the truth of both, and of the soveraignty of God the Father and Christ the Redeemer, and your many engagements to him, and of the necessity and good of obeying, and the evil of sinning; that you are truly willing, that is, have a setled resolution, to cleave t• Christ and obey him, in the deerest, most disgracefull, painfull, hazardous, flesh-displeasing Duties; even though it should cost you the loss of all your worldly enjoyments, and your life?
5. Doth this willingness or resolution already so far prevail in your heart and life, against all the Interest and Temptations of ⟨p. 91⟩the world, the devil and your flesh, that you do ordinarily practise, the most strict and holy, the most self-denying, costly and hazardous duties that you know God requireth of you, and do heartily strive against all known sin and overcome all gross sins, and when you fall under any prevailing temptation, do rise again by Repentance, and begging pardon of God through the blood of Christ, do resolve to watch and resist more carefully for the time to come.
5. Doth this willingness or resolution already so far prevail in your heart and life, against all the Interest and Temptations of