A26892:1801
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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§. 17. Direct. 12. Overvalue not man, and set no more by the approbation or applause of his thoughts 1or speeches of you than they are worth. Hypocrisy much consisteth in overvaluing man, and making too great a matter of his thoughts and words: The Hypocrites Religion is Divine in Name, but Humane 2in deed: It is man that he serveth and observeth most: and the shame of the world is the evil which he most studiously avoideth: And the high esteem and commendation of the world is his Reward. O think what a silly worm is man? And of how little moment are his thoughts or speeches of you, in comparison of the Love of God? His thoughts of you make you not the better or the worse; And if they either lift you up or trouble you, it is your proud and foolish fantasy that doth it, when you might choose. If you have not lost the key and government of your hearts, shut you the door, and keep all thence, and let mens reproaches go no further than your ears, and then what the worse will you be for all the liy•s and slanders of the world? And besides the pleasing of an effeminate mind, what the better are you for their applause?
§. 17. Direct. 12. Overvalue not man, and set no more by the approbation or applause of his thoughts 1or speeches of you than they are worth. Hypocrisie much consisteth in overvaluing man, and making too great a matter of his thoughts and words: The Hypocrites Religion is Divine in Name, but Humane 2in deed: It is man that he serveth and observeth most: and the shame of the world is the evil which he most studiously avoideth: And the high esteem and commendation of the world is his Reward. O think what a silly worm is man? And of how little moment are his thoughts or speeches of you, in comparison of the Love of God? His thoughts of you make you not the better or the worse; And if they either lift you up or trouble you, it is your proud and foolish fantasie that doth it, when you might choose. If you have not lost the key and government of your hearts, shut you the door, and keep all thence, and let mens reproaches go no further than your ears, and then what the worse will you be for all the liys and slanders of the world? And besides the pleasing of an effeminate mind, what the better are you for their applause?