A26892:1173
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
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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.
§. 9. Tempt. 4. The Tempter would have you pray hypocritically, with the tongue only without the 1heart: To put off God in a few customary words with seeming to pray (as they do the poor, Jam. 2. with a few empty words) either in a form of words not understood, or not considered, or not fel• and much regarded, or in more gross hypocrisy, praying for the Holiness which they will not have, and against the sin which they will not part with.
§. 9. Tempt. 4. The Tempter would have you pray hypocritically, with the tongue only without the 1heart: To put off God in a few customary words with seeming to pray (as they do the poor, Jam. 2. with a few empty words) either in a form of words not understood, or not considered, or not fel• and much regarded, or in more gross hypocrisie, praying for the Holiness which they will not have, and against the sin which they will not part with.
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§. 10. Direct. 4. O fear the holy, jealous, heart-searching God that hateth hypocrisy, and will be1 worshipped seriously in Spirit and Truth, and will be sanctified of all that draw near him, Lev. 10. 3. and saith they worship him in vain, that draw nigh him with the lips, when the heart is far from him: