A26892:1719
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.
§. 29. Direct. 26. The prophecies of Christ himself of the destruction of Jerusalem, and the gathering of his Church, and the cruel usage of it through the world, do give great assistance to our faith, when we see them all so punctually fulfilled.
§. 30. Direct. 27. Mark whether it be not a respect to things temporal that assaulteth thy Belief, and 1c•me not with a biassed sensual mind to search into so great a mystery. Worldliness, and pride, and sensuality are deadly enemies to faith; and where they prevail they will show their enmity, and blind the mind: If the soul be sunk into mud and filth, it cannot see the things of God.
§. 30. Direct. 27. Mark whether it be not a respect to things temporal that assaulteth thy Belief, and 1c•me not with a byassed sensual mind to search into so great a mysterie. Worldliness, and pride, and sensuality are deadly enemies to faith; and where they prevail they will shew their enmity, and blind the mind: If the soul be sunk into mud and filth, it cannot see the things of God.
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§. 31. Direct. 28. Come with humility and a sense of your ignorance, and not with arrogance and 1self-conceit, as if all must needs be wrong that your empty foolish minds cannot presently perceive to be right. The famousest Apostates that ever I knew, were all men of notorious Pride and self-conceitedness.