A26892:1823
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.
§. 1. AS in other cases, so in this, iniquity consisteth not simply in the hearts Neglect of1 God, but in the preferring of some competitor, and prevalence of some object which standeth up for an opposite interest. And so the obeying man before God and against him, and the valuing the favour and approbation of man before or against the approbation of God, and the fearing of mans censure or displeasure more than Gods, is an IDOLIZING MAN, or setting him up in the place of God. It turneth our chiefest observance, and care, and labour, and pleasure, and grief into this humane fleshly channel, and maketh all that to be but Humane in our hearts and lives, which (objectively) should be Divine. Which is so great and dangerous a sin, partaking of so much Impiety, Hypocrisy and Pride, as that it deserveth a special place in my Directions, and in all watchfulness and consideration to escape it.
§. 1. AS in other cases, so in this, iniquity consisteth not simply in the hearts Neglect of1 God, but in the preferring of some competitor, and prevalence of some object which standeth up for an opposite interest. And so the obeying man before God and against him, and the valuing the favour and approbation of man before or against the approbation of God, and the fearing of mans censure or displeasure more than Gods, is an IDOLIZING MAN, or setting him up in the place of God. It turneth our chiefest observance, and care, and labour, and pleasure, and grief into this humane fleshly channel, and maketh all that to be but Humane in our hearts and lives, which (objectively) should be Divine. Which is so great and dangerous a sin, partaking of so much Impiety, Hypocrisie and Pride, as that it deserveth a special place in my Directions, and in all watchfulness and consideration to escape it.
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