A26892:1787
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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§. 4. By this it is plain, that among us in England all men that are not Saints are Hypocrites, because that all (except here or there a Jew or Infidel) profess themselves to be Christians; and every true Christian is a Saint. They know that none but Saints or Godly persons shall be saved: And there is few of them that will renounce their hopes of Heaven; and therefore they must pretend to be all godly. And is it not most cursed horrid hypocrisy, for a man to pretend to Religion as the only way to his salvation, and confidently call himself a Christian, while he hateth and derideth the power and practice of that very Religion which he doth profess? Of this see my Treat. of The Vain Religion of the Formal Hypocrite.1
§. 4. By this it is plain, that among us in England all men that are not Saints are Hypocrites, because that all (except here or there a Jew or Infidel) profess themselves to be Christians; and every true Christian is a Saint. They know that none but Saints or Godly persons shall be saved: And there is few of them that will renounce their hopes of Heaven; and therefore they must pretend to be all godly. And is it not most cursed horrid hypocrisie, for a man to pretend to Religion as the only way to his salvation, and confidently call himself a Christian, while he hateth and derideth the power and practice of that very Religion which he doth profess? Of this see my Treat. of The Vain Religion of the Formal Hypocrite.1
- 1When P•••• ▪ in vita sua speaketh of others extolling his eloquence, he addeth his own neglect of it, Ego modo been vixis•em qualiter dixis•em parvi sacerem Ven•osa gloria est, de solo verborum splendour famam quaerere. Conscientiam potius quam famam attende. Falli saepe poterit fama: Conscientia nunquam. Se•ec.When P•••• ▪ in vita sua speaketh of others extolling his eloquence, he addeth his own neglect of it, Ego modo bene vixisem qualiter dixisem parvi sacerem Venosa gloria est, de solo verborum splendore famam quaerere. Conscientiam potius quam famam attende. Falli saepe poterit fama: Conscientia nunquam. Seec.