A26892:1709
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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§. 19. Direct. 16. Mark well the certain Vanity of all other Religions that prevail on the earth: Idolatry 1and Mohammedanism which openly bear the mark of their own shame, have shared between them almost all the rest of the earth: For mere Deism is scarce any where in Possession; and Judaism hath no considerable inheritance; and both of them as sensibly confuted by mans corruption, necessity and desert.
§. 19. Direct. 16. Mark well the certain Vanity of all other Religions that prevail on the earth: Idolatry 1and Mahometanism which openly bear the mark of their own shame, have shared between them allmost all the rest of the earth: For meer Deisme is scarce any where in Possession; and Iudaism hath no considerable inheritance; and both of them as sensibly confuted by mans corruption, necessity and desert.
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§. 20. Direct. 17. Mark the great difference between the Christian part of the world, (those that receive 1Christianity seriously and in sincerity) and all the rest: Those that are farthest from Christianity, are2 furthest from piety, honesty, civility or any laudable parts or conversations: Most of them are beastly and ungodly: And the rest are but a little better: And ignorance and brutishness cannot be the perfection of a man. Nay among professed Christians, the multitudes that have but the Name, and hate the Nature and Practice of it, are like Swine or Wolves and some of the worst, near kin to Devils: When all that receive Christianity practically into their hearts and lives, are heavenly and holy, and (in the same measure that they receive it) their sins are all mortified, and they are devoted to God, and possessed with Justice, Charity and Patience to men, and are carried up above this world, and contemn that which the rest do make their felicity and delight. So that if that e Good which doth Good,