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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.
§. 9. Tempt. 5. The Devil suiteth his Temptations to our several Relations: Parents he tempteth to be 1cold and regardless of the great work of a wise and holy education of their Children: Children he tempteth to be disobedient, unthankful, void of natural affection, unreverent dishonourers of their Parents: Husbands he tempteth to be unloving, unkind, impatient with the weaknesses of their Wives, and Wives to be peevish, self-willed, proud, clamorous, passionate and disobedient: Masters he tempteth to use their servants only as their Beasts, for their own commodity, without any care of their salvation and Gods service: And servants he tempteth to be carnal, untrusty, false, slothful, eye-servants, that take more care to hide a fault, than not to commit it. Ministers and Magistrates he tempteth to seek themselves, and neglect their charge, and set up their own Ends, instead of the common good▪ or to mistake the common good, or the means that tendeth to it. Subjects and People be tempteth to dishonour and murmur against their Governors, and to censure them unjustly, and to disobey them, and rebel; or else to honour, and fear, and serve them more than God and against God.
§. 9. Tempt. 5. The Devil suiteth his Temptations to our several Relations: Parents he tempteth to be 1cold and regardless of the great work of a wise and holy education of their Children: Children he tempteth to be disobedient, unthankful, void of natural affection, unreverent dishonourers of their Parents: Husbands he tempteth to be unloving, unkind, impatient with the weaknesses of their Wives, and Wives to be pievish, self-willed, proud, clamorous, passionate and disobedient: Masters he tempteth to use their servants only as their Beasts, for their own commodity, without any care of their salvation and Gods service: And servants he tempteth to be carnal, untrusty, false, slothful, eye-servants, that take more care to hide a fault, than not to commit it. Ministers and Magistrates he tempteth to seek themselves, and neglect their charge, and set up their own Ends, instead of the common good▪ or to mistake the common good, or the means that tendeth to it. Subjects and People be tempteth to dishonour and murmur against their Governours, and to censure them unjustly, and to disobey them, and rebell; or else to honour, and fear, and serve them more than God and against God.