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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.
§. 7. Tempt. 4. The Devil suiteth his Temptations to mens daily work and business. If it be low,1 to be ashamed of it through Pride; If it be high, to be Proud of it: If it be hard, to be weary and unfaithful in it; or to make it take up all their minds and time: If it be about worldly things, he tempteth them to be tainted by it with a worldly mind: If they labour for themselves, he tempteth them to ever-do: If for others, he tempteth them to deceitful unfaithful negligence and sloth. If they are Ministers, he tempteth them to be idle, and unfaithful, and senseless of the weight of truth, the worth of souls, the brevity of time, that so their sin may be the ruin or the loss of many. If Rulers, the Devil useth his utmost skill, to cause them to espouse an interest contrary to the interest of truth and holiness, and to cast some quarrel against Christ into their minds, and to persuade them that his interest is against theirs, and that his servants are their enemies.
§. 7. Tempt. 4. The Devil suiteth his Temptations to mens daily work and business. If it be low,1 to be ashamed of it through Pride; If it be high, to be Proud of it: If it be hard, to be weary and unfaithful in it; or to make it take up all their minds and time: If it be about worldly things, he tempteth them to be tainted by it with a worldly mind: If they labour for themselves, he tempteth them to ever-do: If for others, he tempteth them to deceitful unfaithful negligence and sloth. If they are Ministers, he tempteth them to be idle, and unfaithful, and senseless of the weight of truth, the worth of souls, the brevity of time, that so their sin may be the ruine or the loss of many. If Rulers, the Devil useth his utmost skill, to cause them to espouse an interest contrary to the interest of truth and holiness, and to cast some quarrel against Christ into their minds, and to perswade them that his interest is against theirs, and that his servants are their enemies.
- 1Tempt▪ 4.