A26892:1836
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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§. 14. 3. Considering what remnants of pride and self-conceitedness remain in many that have true grace, and how many Hypocrites are in the Church, whose, Religion consisteth in Opinions and their several modes of worship, we must expect to be reproached and abused by such as in Opinions, and Modes, and Circumstances do differ from us, and take us therefore as their adversaries: A great deal of injustice, sometime by slanders or reproach, and sometimes by greater violence, must be expected, from contentious professors of the same Religion with our selves: especially when the interest of their faction or cause requireth it: and especially if we bring any truth among them, which seemeth new to them, or crosseth the opinions which are there in credit, or would be Reformers of them in any thing that is amiss.
§. 15. 4. No men must be Pleased by sin; nor their favour preferred before the pleasing of God▪ Mans favour as against God, is to be despised, and their displeasure made light of. It doing our duty will displease them, let them be displeased; we can but pity them.
§. 15. 4. No men must be Pleased by sin; nor their favour preferred before the pleasing of God▪ Mans favour as against God, is to be despised, and their displeasure made light of. It doing our duty will displease them, let them be displeased; we can but pitty them.
§. 16. 5. We must place none of our happiness in the favour or approbation of men, but account it as to our selves to be a matter of no great moment; neither worth any great care or endeavour to obtain it, or grief for losing it. We must not only contemn it as compared to the approbation and favour of God, but we must value it but as other transitory things, in it self considered, estimating