A26892:1179
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.
§. 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 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 hansome expression, order, manner, which in their places are all good; if animated with Spirit, life and seriousness.
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§. 16. Direct. 7. Look most and first to the soul in duty, and the soul of duty: The picture of meat1 feedeth not; the picture of fire warmeth not: Fire and shadows will not nourish us: God loveth not dead carcasses instead of spiritual worship: we regard not words our selves, further than they express the Heart. Let the outer part have but its due.
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§. 17. Tempt. 8. He tempteth you to rest in a forced affected counterfeit fervency, stirred up by a desire