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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.
Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 9 › Tit. 3. Temptations to draw us off from duty.
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.
§. 19. Tempt. 10. Satan filleth many with abundance of scruples about every duty, that they come 1t• it as sick persons to their meat, with a peevish quarrelling disposition: This aileth and that aileth it▪ something is still amiss, that they cannot get it down: This fault the Minister hath in praying or preaching, or the other circumstance is amiss; or the other fault is in the company that join with them: and all is to turn them off from all.
§. 19. Tempt. 10. Satan filleth many with abundance of scruples about every duty, that they come 1t• it as sick persons to their meat, with a pievish quarrelling disposition: This aileth and that aileth it▪ something is still amiss, that they cannot get it down: This fault the Minister hath in praying or preaching, or the other circumstance is amiss; or the other fault is in the company that joyn with them: and all is to turn them off from all.
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§. 20. Direct. 10. But do you mend the matter by casting off all, or by running into greater inconveniences?1 Is not their imperfect prayer and communion, better than your idle neglect of all, or unwarrantable division? It is a sign of an upright heart to be most about heart-observation, and quarrelsome with themselves, and the mark of hypocrites to be most quarrelsome against the manner of other mens performances, and to be easily driven by any pretences from the Worship of God, and communion of Saints.