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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
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§. 11. Some women and passionate weak-spirited men; especially in sickness, are so peevish and of such impatient minds, that their daily work is to disquiet and torment themselves. One can scarce tell how to speak to them, or look at them but it offendeth them. And the world is so full of occasions of provocation, that such persons are like to have little quietness. It is unlike that these should delight in God, who keep their minds in a continual ulcerated galled state, uncapable of any delights at all, and cease not their self-tormenting.
§. 11. Some women and passionate weak-spirited men; especially in sickness, are so pievish and of such impatient minds, that their daily work is to disquiet and torment themselves. One can scarce tell how to speak to them, or look at them but it offendeth them. And the world is so full of occasions of provocation, that such persons are like to have little quietness. It is unlike that these should delight in God, who keep their minds in a continual ulcerated galled state, uncapable of any delights at all, and cease not their self-tormenting.
§. 12. Direct. 10. It is only a life of faith, that will be a life of holy heavenly Delight: Exercise your 1selves therefore in believing contemplations of the things unseen. It must not be now and then a glance of the eye of the soul towards God, or a seldom salutation which you would give a stranger; but a walking with him, and frequent addresses of the soul unto him, which must help you to the Delights which Believers find in their communion with him.
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§. 13. Direct. 11. Especially let faith go frequently to Heaven for renewed matter of delight, and