A26892:1082
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.
§. 67. Tempt. 22. The Devil •ft most dangerously imitateth the Holy Ghost, and comes in the shape of 1•n Angel of light: He will be for knowledge in the Gnostics; for Unity and Government in the Papists; for Mortification in the Friars; for free-grace and tenderness of our Brethren's Consciences in the Libertines▪ for Peace and Mutual forbearance in the Socinians; for Zeal, Self-den•al, and fearfulness of men, and pretended revelations and spirituality in the Quakers; He will be against heresy, schism, error, disobedience, hypocrisy, pretendedly, in haters and persecutors of holiness and reformation. And when he will seem religious, he will be superstitious, and seem to out-go Christ himself.
§. 67. Tempt. 22. The Devil •ft most dangerously imitateth the Holy Ghost, and comes in the shape of 1•n Angel of light: He will be for knowledge in the Gnosticks; for Unity and Government in the Papists; for Mortifcation in the Fryars; for free-grace and tenderness of our Brethrens Consciences in the Liberti••s▪ for Peace and Mutual forbearance in the Socinians; for Zeal, Self-den•al, and fearfulness of men, and pretended revelations and spirituality in the Quakers; He will be against heresie, schism, error, disobedience, hypocrisie, pretendedly, in haters and persecutors of holiness and reformation. And when he will seem religious, he will be superstitious, and seem to out-go Christ himself.
- 1Tempt. 22.