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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.
§. 71. Tempt. 24. On the contrary, the Tempter usually pleadeth Moderation and Prudence against 1a holy life, and accurate zealous obedience to God: and would make you believe that to be so diligent in duty and scrupulously afraid of sin, is to run into an extreme, and to be righteous over much, and to make Religion a vexatious or distracting thing, and that its more a do than needs.
§. 71. Tempt. 24. On the contrary, the Tempter usually pleadeth Moderation and Prudence against 1a holy life, and accurate zealous obedience to God: and would make you believe that to be so diligent in duty and s•rupulously afraid of sin, is to run into an extream, and to be righteous over much, and to make Religion a vexatious or distracting thing, and that its more a do than needs.
- 1Tempt. 24.
§▪ 72. Direct. 24. This I have answered so oft, that I shall here say but this: that God cannot be1 too much loved: nor Heaven too much valued, nor too diligently sought or obeyed: nor sin and Hell be too much avoided: nor doth any man need to fear doing too much, where he is sure when he hath done his best to do too little: Hearken what men say of this at death.
- 1Direct. 24.