A26892:1711
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.
§. 21. Direct. 18. Bethink you what you should have been your selves if you had not been Christians? 1Yea what would yet be the consequent if you should fall from the Christian faith? Would you not look at the life to come as doubtful? And resolve to take your pleasure in the world, and to gratify2 the flesh, and to neglect your souls, and to venture upon almost any vice, that seemeth necessary to your ca•nal ends. Christianity hath cleansed and sanctified you if you are sanctified: And if (which God forbid) you should forsake Christianity, it is most likely you would quickly show the difference, by your dirty, fleshly, worldly lives.
§. 21. Direct. 18. Bethink you what you should have been your selves if you had not been Christians? 1Yea what would yet be the consequent if you should fall from the Christian faith? Would you not look at the life to come as doubtful? And resolve to take your pleasure in the world, and to gratifie2 the flesh, and to neglect your souls, and to venture upon allmost any vice, that seemeth necessary to your ca•nal ends. Christianity hath cleansed and sanctified you if you are sanctified: And if (which God forbid) you should forsake Christianity, it is most likely you would quickly shew the difference, by your dirty, fleshly, worldly lives.
- 1Direct. 18.
- 2P•e•a•e ad•er••s Deos •ub••••a, ides […] & […] human gener, & […] v u a, toa u ecess . Cico d. Na. Do. 1.