A26892:1952
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.
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.
§. 34. Sign 4. A Proud heart perceiveth not his own necessity of so great a change as a New birth, 1and of the Holy Ghost to give him a new nature, and plant the image of God upon him: He findeth perhaps some breaches in his soul; but he thinks there needs no breaking of the heart for them; nor pulling all down and building up his hopes anew: Amending his heart he thinks, may serve the turn, without making it and all things new: The new creature he taketh to be but Baptism, or some2 patching up of the former state, and amending some grosser things that were amiss. He will confess that without Christ and grace we can do nothing, but he thinketh this grace is an ordinary help. Where as a humble soul is so emptied of it self, and perceiveth its deadness and insufficiency to good, that it magnifieth grace, and is wondrous thankful for it, as for a new and spiritual life.
§. 34. Sign 4. A Proud heart perceiveth not his own necessity of so great a change as a New birth, 1and of the Holy Ghost to give him a new nature, and plant the image of God upon him: He findeth perhaps some breaches in his soul; but he thinks there needs no breaking of the heart for them; nor pulling all down and building up his hopes anew: Amending his heart he thinks, may serve the turn, without making it and all things new: The new creature he taketh to be but Baptism, or some2 patching up of the former state, and amending some grosser things that were amiss. He will confess that without Christ and grace we can do nothing, but he thinketh this grace is an ordinary help. Where as a humble soul is so emptyed of it self, and perceiveth its deadness and insufficiency to good, that it magnifieth grace, and is wondrous thankful for it, as for a new and spiritual life.
- 1Sign 4.
- 22 Cor. 5. 17.