A26892:1777
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.
Part 1 › Chapter 4 › Part 2: Directions against Hardness of Heart.
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.
§. 12. Direct. 9. Take heed of hardening Company, Examples and Discours•. To hear men rail and1 s••ffe at Holiness, and curse, and swear, and blaspheme the Name and Truth of God, will at first make you tremble. But if you wilfully cast your self ordinarily into such Company, by degrees your sense and tenderness will be gone, and you will find a very great Hardening power, in the company and frequent discourse and practices, which your selves condemn.
§. 12. Direct. 9. Take heed of hardning Company, Examples and Discours•. To hear men rail and1 s••ffe at Holiness, and curse, and swear, and blaspheme the Name and Truth of God, will at first make you tremble. But if you wilfully cast your self ordinarily into such Company, by degrees your sense and tenderness will be gone, and you will find a very great Hardning power, in the company and frequent discourse and practices, which your selves condemn.
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§. 13. Direct. 10. Take heed of wilful sinning against knowledge: much more of lying in such sin 1unrepented of. It greatly hardeneth to sin against knowledge; and much more to commit such sins over and over. This grieveth and driveth away the Spirit, and dangerously provoketh God to leave men to themselves.
§. 13. Direct. 10. Take heed of wilful sinning against knowledge: much more of lying in such sin 1