A26892:1696
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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§. 6. Direct. 3. Consider what full and sad experience the world hath of its pravity and great corruption; 1and that the natural tendency of Reason is to those high and excellent things, which corruption and brutishness do almost extinguish or cast out with the most: and that the prevalency of the lower-faculties against right Reason is so lamentable and universal to the confusion of the world, that it is enough to tell us that this is not the state that God first made us in, and that certainly sin hath sullied and disordered his work. The wickedness of the world is a great confirmation of the Scripture.
§. 6. Direct. 3. Consider what full and sad experience the world hath of its pravity and great corruption; 1and that the natural tendency of Reason is to those high and excellent things, which corruption and bruitishness do almost extinguish or cast out with the most: and that the prevalency of the lower-faculties against right Reason is so lamentable and universal to the confusion of the world, that it is enough to tell us that this is not the state that God first made us in, and that certainly sin hath sullied and disordered his work. The wickedness of the world is a great confirmation of the Scripture.
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§. 7. Direct. 4. Consider how exactly the Doctrine of the Gospel and Covenant of Grace is suited to 1the lapsed state of man: even as the Law of Works was suited to his state of innocency: so that the Gospel may be called the Law of Lapsed Nature as suited to it, (though not as revealed by it) as the other was the Law of Entire Nature.
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