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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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§. 4. Worldliness is either predominant and so a certain sign of death; or else mortified and in a subdued1 degree, consistent with some saving grace. Worldliness predominant as in the Ungodly[…]s [When men that have not • lively belief of the everlasting happiness, no• have not laid up their treasure and hopes in Heaven, do take the pleasure and prosperity of this life for that felicity which is highest in their esteem, and dearest to their hearts, and therefore love the Riches of the world, or full provisions, as 2the matter and means of this their temporal felicity]. Worldliness in a mortified person, is [When •e 3he that hath laid up his treasure in Heaven, and practically esteemeth his everlasting h•pes above all the pleasure and prosperity of the flesh, and seeketh first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and useth his estate principally for God and his salvation, hath yet s•me remnants of inordinate desire to the p•• sperity and pleasure of the flesh, and some inordinate desire of Riches for that end; which yet he ••••eth, lamenteth, re•uteth, and so far subdueth, that it is not predominant, against the interest of God and his salvation.] Yet this is a great sin, though it be forgiven.
§. 4. Worldliness is either predominant and so a certain sign of death; or else mortified and in a subdu•d1 degree, consistent with some saving grace. Worldliness predominant as in the Ungodly〈…〉s [When men that have not • lively belief of the everla•sting happiness, no have not laid up their treasure and hopes in Heaven, do take the pleasure and prosperity of this life for that felicity which is highest in their esteem, and dearest to their hearts, and therefore love the Riches of the world, or full provisions, as