A26892:1191
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.
§. 27. Tempt. 13. Neglecting one duty is the Tempters snare to spoil another: If he can keep you 1from reading, you will not understand well what you hear: If he keep you from meditating, you will not digest what you hear or read: If he keep you from hearing, you will want both matter and life for prayer, and meditation, and conference: If he keep you from godly company, you will be hindered in all, and in the practice: No one is omitted, but you are disadvantaged by it in all the rest.
- 1Tempt. 13.
§. 28. Direct. 13. Observe how one duty helpeth another; and take all together each one in its1 place.
- 1Direct. 13.
§. 29. Tempt. 14. Sometime the Tempter doth call you off to other duty, and puts in unseasonable 1motions to that which in its time is good: he interrupts prayer by meditation: he sets seeming truth against Love, and Peace, and Concord.
- 1Tempt. 14.