A26892:1701
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. Direct. 8. Consider how no one of all the Heretics or Apostates, did ever contradict the matters 1of fact, or hath left the world any kind of confutation of them, which they wanted not malice or encouragement, or opportunity to have done.
§. 11. Direct. 8. Consider how no one of all the Hereticks or Apostates, did ever contradict the matters 1of fact, or hath left the world any kind of confutation of them, which they wanted not malice or encouragement, or opportunity to have done.
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§. 12. Direct. 9. Consider how that no one of all those thousands that asserted these miracles are 1ever mentioned in any history as repenting of it, either in their health, or at the hour of death: whereas it had been so heinous a villainy to have cheated the world in so great a cause, that some consciences of dying men, especially of men, that placed all their hopes in the life to come, must needs have repented of.
§. 12. Direct. 9. Consider how that no one of all those thousands that asserted these miracles are 1ever mentioned in any history as repenting of it, either in their health, or at the hour of death: whereas it had been so heinous a villany to have cheated the world in so great a cause, that some consciences of dying men, especially of men, that placed all their hopes in the life to come, must needs have repented of.
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