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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.
§. 13. Tempt. 6. Sometime the Tempter will promise you more by holy duty, than God doth, and make 1you expect deliverance from every enemy, want and sickness, and speedier deliverance of soul, than ⟨p. 127⟩ever God promised; and all this is, to make you cast away all as vain, and think God faileth you, when you miss your expectations.
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§. 14. Direct. 6. But God will do all that He promiseth, but not all that the Devil or your selves 1promise. See what God promiseth in his Word: That's enough for you: Make that and no more the end of duties.
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§. 15. Tempt. 7. The Tempter usually would draw you from the heart and life of duty, by too much 1ascribing to the outside: Laying too much on the bare doing of the work, the giving of the alms, the hearing the Sermons, the saying the words, the hansom expression, order, manner, which in their places are all good; if animated with Spirit, life and seriousness.
§. 15. Tempt. 7. The Tempter usually would draw you from the heart and life of duty, by too much