A26892:1809
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.
§. 25. Direct. 20. Come into the Light that your hearts and lives may be throughly known to you: 1Love the most searching faithful Ministry and Books, and be thankful to reprovers and plain dealing friends. 2Darkness is it that cherisheth deceit: It is the office of the Light to manifest. Justly do those wretches perish in their hypocrisy, who will not endure the light which would undeceive them; but fly from a plain and powerful Ministry, and hate plain reproof, and set themselves by excuses and cavils to defend their own deceit.
§. 25. Direct. 20. Come into the Light that your hearts and lives may be throughly known to you: 1Love the most searching faithul Ministry and Books, and be thankful to reprovers and plain dealing friends. 2Darkness is it that cherisheth deceit: It is the office of the Light to manifest. Justly do those wretches perish in their hypocrisie, who will not endure the light which would undeceive them; but fly from a plain and powerful Ministry, and hate plain reproof, and set themselves by excuses and cavils to defend their own deceit.
- 1Direct. 20.
- 2Permanent tepidi▪ •gnavi, negl•g•ntes, Va••, leves, volupt••si, del•ca••; commoda corporis supers•ua sectantur, sum compendium in omnibus quae•unt, ubicunque hono•em & existimationem nominis sui integra sevae possunt: Ius prpriae volunta pernacter add, irregn, minime abnegati, superbi, curiosi, & contumaces sunt in omnibu, licet terne coram hominibus been mati videantur. In tentationibus impatientes, amari, procaces, iracundi, rises, aliis molest, verbis tamen ingenioque se,—In prosperis nimium eai & hilaes: In adversis, nmum turbai sunt & pusilanimes: Aiorum temera sunt judices: aliorum vitia accuratissime perscrutari, de aliorum defectibus frequenter gare, a glossary egregium putant. Ex istis & simibus operibus facillime cognosci poterunt: nam moribus gestibusque suis cu sorex quispiam suopte smet judicio produ. Thale. lo. pag. 65, 66.