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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.
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. Direct. 2. Let your strictest watch be upon the sins of your temperature: Far greater diligence1 and resolution is here necessary, than against other sins. And withdraw the fuel, and strive against the bodily distempers themselves. Fasting and labour will do much against lust, which Idleness, and fullness continually •eed. And so the rest have their several cures. Know also what good your temper doth give you special advantage for: and let it be turned unto that, and still employed in it.
§. 4. Direct. 2. Let your strictest watch be upon the sins of your temperature: Far greater diligence1 and resolution is here necessary, than against other sins. And withdraw the fewel, and strive against the bodily distempers themselves. Fasting and labour will do much against lust, which Idleness, and fulness continually •eed. And so the rest have their several cures. Know also what good your temper doth give you special advantage for: and let it be turned unto that, and still employed in it.
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§. 5. Tempt. 3. The Tempter suiteth his Temptations to your Estates, of Poverty or Riches: The 1p••r he tempteth to murmur and be impatient under their wants, and distress themselves more with griefs and cares: and to think that their sufferings may save them without holiness, and that necessary labour for their bodies, may excuse them from much minding the concernments of their souls: And either to censure and hate the Rich through envy, or to flatter them for gain. The Rich he tempteth to an idle, time-wasting, voluptuous, fleshly, brutish life. To excess in sleep, and meat, and drink, and sport, and apparel, and costly ways of pride, and idle discourse, and visits, and complements; to love the wealth and honours of the world, and live in continual pleasing of the flesh, to fare deliciously every day, and to waste their time in unprofitableness without a constant Calling; and to be unmerciful to the poor, and to tyrannize over their inferiors.