A26892:1527
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.
9. SELF-LOVE is Sensitive or Rational: Sensitive as such is necessary and not free; And it is purposely by the Most Wise and Blessed Creator planted in Man and Brutes, as a Principle useful to preserve the world, and to engage the Creature in the use of the means of its own preservation, and so to bring it to perfection, and to endue it with those fears and hopes which make us subjects capable of Moral Government:
9. SELF-LOVE is Sensitive or Rational: Sensitive as such is necessary and not free; And it is purposely by the Most Wise and Blessed Creator planted in Man and Bruits, as a Principle useful to preserve the world, and to engage the Creature in the use of the means of its own preservation, and so to bring it to perfection, and to endue it with those fears and hopes which make us subjects capable of Moral Government:
10. The Rational or Higher Appetite also hath a Natural Inclination to self-preservation, perfection and felicity; But as ordinable and ordinate to higher ends.
11. The Rational Powers cannot nullify the sensitive, nor directly or totally hinder the Action of them; But they may and must indirectly hinder the Act (by avoiding the objects and temptations, by diverting the thoughts to higher things, &c.) And may hinder the effects by Governing the Locomotive power.
11. The Rational Powers cannot nullifie the sensitive, nor directly or totally hinder the Action of them; But they may and must indirectly hinder the Act (by avoiding the objects and temptations, by diverting the thoughts to higher things, &c.) And may hinder the effects by Governing the Locomotive power.