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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.
§. 21. Tempt. 11. The Devil will set one duty against another: Reading against hearing; praying 1against preaching; private against public; outward and inward worship against each other: mercy and justice, piety and charity, against each other, and still labour to eject the greater.
§. 21. Tempt. 11. The Devil will set one duty against another: Reading against hearing; praying 1against preaching; private against publick; outward and inward worship against each other: mercy and justice, piety and charity, against each other, and still labour to eject the greater.
- 1Tempt. 11.
§. 22. Direct. 11. The work of God is an harmonious and well composed frame: If you leave out a1 part, you spoil the whole, and disadvantage your selves in all the rest: Place them aright, and each part helpeth and not hindereth another: Plead one for another; but cast by none.
§. 22. Direct. 11. The work of God is an harmonious and well composed frame: If you leave out a1 part, you spoil the whole, and disadvantage your selves in all the rest: Place them aright, and each part helpeth and not hind•reth another: Plead one for another; but cast by none.
- 1Direct. 11.