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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.
DIRECT. XVII. As the soul must be carried up to God, and devoted to him, according to all the1 foregoing Directions, so must it be delivered from carnal selfishness, or flesh-pleasing,2 which is the grand enemy to God and Godliness in the world; and from the three great branches of this Idolatry, viz. the Love of sensual pleasures, the Love of worldly wealth, and the proud desire and Love of worldly honour and esteem: And the mortifying of these must be much of the labour of your lives.
DIRECT. XVII. As the soul must be carried up to God, and devoted to him, according to all the1 foregoing Directions, so must it be delivered from carnal selfishness, or fleshpleasing,2 which is the grand enemy to God and Godliness in the world; and from the three great branches of this Idolatry, viz. the Love of sensual pleasures, the Love of worldly wealth, and the proud desire and Love of worldly honour and esteem: And the mortifying of these must be much of the labour of your lives.
- 1Gr. Dir. 17.
- 2I pass not this by as a small matter to be passed by also by the Reader. For I take the Love of God kindled by Faith in Christ, with the full Denial of our carnal selves, to be the sum of all Religion. But because I would not injure so great a duty by saying but a little of it; And therefore desire the Reader who studieth for Practice, and needeth such helps, to peruse the mentioned Books of Self-denial, and Crucifying the World.I pass not this by as a small matter to be passed by also by the Reader. For I take the Love of God kindled by Faith in Christ, with the full Denyal of our carnal selves, to be the sum of all Religion. But because I would not injure so great a duty by saying but a little of it; And therefore desire the Reader who studieth for Practice, and needeth such helps, to peruse the mentioned Books of Self-denyal, and Crucifying the World.