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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
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§. 44 Direct. 10. O know thy own weakness! the treacherous enemy which thou still carriest about1 thee, who is ready to open the back-door to the Devil: Remember that flesh is on the Tempters ••••e, and how much it can do with thee before thou art aware. Remember what an unsettled wretch thou art, and how many a good purpose formerly hath come to nothing; and how oft thou hast ••••ned by as small a temptation: Remember that without the Spirit of Christ, thou canst do nothing nor stand against any assault of Satan: And that Christ giveth his Spirit and help in his own way, and not to those that tempt him to forsake them, by thrusting themselves into temptations. Shall ever mortal man presume upon his own strength, after the falls of an Adam, a Noah, a Lot, a David, a Solomon, a Hezekiah, a Josiah, a Peter? and after such ruins of multitudes of professors as our eyes have seen? All these things happened unto them for ensamples, and they are written for our admonition on whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed l••t he fall, 1 Cor. 10. 11, 12.
§. 44 Direct. 10. O know thy own weakness! the treacherous enemy which thou still carriest about1 thee, who is ready to open the back-door to the Devil: Remember that flesh is on the Tempters ••••e, and how much it can do with thee before thou art aware. Remember what an unsetled wretch thou art, and how many a good purpose formerly hath come to nothing; and how oft thou hast ••••ned by as small a temptation: Remember that without the Spirit of Christ, thou canst do nothing nor stand against any assault of Satan: And that Christ giveth his Spirit and help in his own way, and not to those that tempt him to forsake them, by thrusting themselves into temptations. Shall ever mortall man presume upon his own strength, after the falls of an Adam, a Noah, a Lot, a David, a Solomon, a Hezekiah, a Iosiah, a Peter? and after such ruines of multitudes of professors as our eyes have seen? All these things hapned unto them for ensamples, and they are written for our admonition on whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lt he fall,