A26892:1879
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.
§. 54. 19. Godliness, virtue and honesty it self will not please the world, and therefore you cannot 1h•pe to please them by that which is not pleasing to them. Will men be pleased by that which they hate? and by the actions which they think accuse them and condemn them? And if you will be Ungodly and Vicious to please them, you sell your souls, your Conscience, and your God to please them. God and they are not pleased with the same ways: And which do you think should first be pleased? I• you displease him for their favour, you will buy it dear.
§. 54. 19. Godliness, vertue and honesty it self will not please the world, and therefore you cannot 1h•pe to please them by that which is not pleasing to them. Will men be pleased by that which they hate? and by the actions which they think accuse them and condemn them? And if you will be Ungodly and Vicious to please them, you sell your souls, your Conscience, and your God to please them. God and they are not pleased with the same wayes: And which do you think should first be pleased? I• you displease him for their favour, you will buy it dear.
- 1A••sti••s having g•t the Surname o• I•st, was hated by the A••••iais, who decreed to b••ish him: and every one that voted against him being to write down his Name, a Clown that could not write, came to Aristides to desire him •o wr•te down A•isti••s name: He asked him, whether he knew Aristidis; and the man answered, no; but he would vote against him because his name wa Ist. Aristides concealing himself, fulfilled the mans desire, and wrote his own Name in the Roll and gave it hm: so easily did he bear it to be condemned of the world for being Just: Plutarch i Aristide. It was not only Socras that was thus used (saith Laertius) Nam Homerum velut insanientem drachmas quinquaginta mulctarunt, Tyaeumque mentis impotem dixe, &.—Which of the Prophets have not your Fathers persecuted? Math. 23.