A26892:1861
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.
§. 38. 3. You have abundance to please that are so ignorant, unreasonable, and weak, that they take 1your greatest virtues for your faults, and know not when you do well or ill: And yet none more bold in censuring than those that least understand the things they censure. Many and many a time my own and others Sermons have been censured, and openly defamed, for that which never was in them, upon the ignorance or heedlessness of a censorious hearer: Yea, for that which they directly spoke against; because they were not understood: especially he that hath a close style, free from tautology, where every word must be marked by him that will not misunderstand, shall frequently be misreported.
§. 38. 3. You have abundance to please that are so ignorant, unreasonable, and weak, that they take 1your greatest vertues for your faults, and know not when you do well or ill: And yet none more bold in censuring than those that least understand the things they censure. Many and many a time my own and others Sermons have been censured, and openly defamed, for that which never was in them, upon the ignorance or heedlesness of a censorious hearer: Yea, for that which they directly spoke against; because they were not understood: especially he that hath a close style, free from tautology, where every word must be marked by him that will not misunderstand, shall frequently be misreported.
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