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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.
§. 101. Tempt. 39. Sometime the Devil tempteth men to some ••ynous sin, that if he prevail not, at 1l••st he may draw them into a less: As cheating chafferers will ask twice the price of their commodity, that by abating much they may make you willing to give too much: He that would get a little must ask a great deal. He will tempt you to drunkenness, and if he draw you but to tippling or time-wasting he hath got something. If he tempt you to fornication, and he get you but to some filthy thoughts or immodest lascivious talk or actions, he hath done much of that which he intended: If he tempt you to s•me horrid cruel•y, and you yield but to s•me less degree, or to some unjust or uncharitable censures, you think you have conquered, when it's he that conquereth.
§. 101. Tempt. 39. Sometime the Devil tempteth men to some ••ynous sin, that if he prevail not, at 1l••st he may draw them into a less: As cheating chafferers will ask twice the price of their commodity, that by abating much they may make you willing to give too much: He that would get a little must ask a great deal. He will tempt you to drunkenness, and if he draw you but to tipling or time-wasting he hath got something. If he tempt you to fornication, and he get you but to some filthy thoughts or immodest lascivious talk or actions, he hath done much of that which he intended: If he tempt you to s•me horrid cruel•y, and you yield but to s•me less degree, or to some unjust or uncharitable censures, you think you have conquered, when it's he that conquereth.
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