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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.
The chiefest thing therefore that I intend in all this discourse, is this following advice to those that upon search do find themselves▪ guilty in any of these cases. As ever you would have peace of conscience, set your selves presently against your sins▪ And do not either mistakingly cry out of ⟨p. 305⟩one sore, when it is another that is your malady; nor yet spend your days in fears and disquietness of mind, and fruitless complainings, and in the mean time continue in wilful sinning: but resist sin more, and torment your minds less: and break off your sin and your terrors together.
The chiefest thing therefore that I intend in all this discourse, is this following advice to those that upon search do finde themselves▪ guilty in any of these cases. As ever you would have peace of conscience, set your selves presently against your sinnes▪ And do not either mistakingly cry out of ⟨p. 305⟩one sore, when it is another that is your malady; nor yet spend your daies in fears and disquietness of minde, and fruitless complainings, and in the mean time continue in wilfull sinning: but resist sinne more, and torment your mindes less: and break off your sin and your terrours together.
In these words I tell you what must be done for your cure; and I warn you of two sore mistakes of many sad Christians hereabouts. The cure lieth in breaking off sin, to the utmost of your power. This is the Achan that disquieteth all. It is Gods great mercy that he disquieteth you in sinning, and gives you not over to so deep a slumber and peace in sin, as might hinder your repentance and reformation. The dangerous mistakes here are these two.
In these words I tell you what must be done for your cure; and I warn you of two sore mistakes of many sad Christians hereabouts. The cure lieth in breaking off sinne, to the utmost of your power. This is the Achan that disquieteth all. It is Gods great mercy that he disquieteth you in sinning, and gives you not over to so deep a slumber and peace in sinne, as might hinder your repentance and reformation. The dangerous mistakes here are these two.