A26892:1951
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.
Part 1 › Chapter 4 › Part 5 › Signs of the next Degrees of Pride as against God.
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§. 33. Sign 3. A Proud heart hath very little sense of the necessity of a Saviour, to die for his sins,1 and satisfy Gods justice, and reconcile him to God: Notionally he is sick of sin; and notionally he thinks he needeth a Physician: But practically at the heart, he feeleth little of his disease, and therefore little s•ts by Christ. He feeleth not that which should throughly acquaint him with the Reasons of this blessed work of our Redemption: And therefore indeed is a stranger to the mystery, and an unbeliever at the heart: and would turn Apostate if the trial were strong enough. He never felt himself a condemned man, under the curse and wrath of God, and liable to Hell: And therefore never lay in tears with Mary at his Saviours feet, nor melted over his bleeding Lord; nor feelingly said with Paul, [He came to save sinners of whom I am chief] nor esteemed all things as loss and dung for the knowledge of Christ, that he might be found in him, Phil. 3. 7, 8. He is a Christian but as a Turk is a Mahometan, because it is the Religion of the King, and the Country, in which he was bred.
§. 33. Sign 3. A Proud heart hath very little sense of the necessity of a Saviour, to die for his sins,1 and satisfie Gods justice, and reconcile him to God: Notionally he is sick of sin; and notionally he thinks he needeth a Physicion: But practically at the heart, he feeleth little of his disease, and therefore little s•ts by Christ. He feeleth not that which should throughly acquaint him with the Reasons of this blessed work of our Redemption: And therefore indeed is a stranger to the mystery, and an unbeliever at the heart: and would turn Apostate if the tryal were strong enough. He never felt himself a condemned man, under the curse and wrath of God, and lyable to Hell: And therefore never lay in tears with Mary at his Saviours feet, nor melted over his bleeding Lord; nor feelingly said with Paul, [He came to save sinners of whom I am chief] nor esteemed all things as loss and dung for the knowledge of Christ, that he might be found in him, Phil. 3. 7, 8