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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 9 › The Methods of Christ against the Tempter.
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.
§. 65. 3. Sometimes he giveth his cause the major vote among the people, so that it shall be a matter of dishonourable singularity not to be a professed Christian: and sometime, but exceeding rarely, it is so with the life of Godliness and practice of Christianity also. But ordinarily in the most places of the world, Custom and the Multitude are against him, and his grace is honoured by prevailing against these bands of Satan.
§. 65. 3. Sometimes he giveth his cause the major vote among the people, so that it shall be a matter of dishonourable singularity not to be a professed Christian: and somtime, but exceeding rarely, it is so with the life of Godliness and practice of Christianity also. But ordinarily in the most places of the world, Custom and the Multitude are against him, and his grace is honoured by prevailing against these bands of Satan.
§. 66. 4. He maketh his Ministers his principal Instruments, qualifying, disposing and calling them to his work, and helping them in it, and prospering it in their hands.
§. 67. 5. He maketh it the duty of every Christian to do his part to carry on the work; and furnisheth them with Love, and Compassion, and Knowledge, and Zeal in their several measures.