A26892:2078
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.
§. 16. 10. Another thinks he is not covetous, because he purposeth to leave much to charitable uses when he is dead. I confess that much is well: I would more would do so. But the flesh it self can spare it, when it seeth that it must lie down in the grave. If they could carry their riches with them, and enjoy them after death, they would do it, no doubt. To leave it when you cannot keep it any longer, is not thank-worthy. So the glutton and drunkard, and whoremonger, and the proud must all leave their pleasure at the grave. But do you serve God or the flesh with your Riches while you have them? And do you use them to help or to hinder your salvation? Deceive not your selves, for God is not mocked. Gal. 6. 7.
§. 17. VI. Yet many are falsely accused of covetousness upon such grounds as these. 1. Because they1 possess much and are Rich: For the poor take the Rich for worldlings. But God giveth not to all alike: He putteth ten talents into the hands of one servant, and but one into another's: And to whom men commit much, of them will they require the more: Therefore to be entrusted with more than others, is no sin, unless they betray that trust.
§. 17. VI. Yet many are falsly accused of covetousness upon such grounds as these. 1. Because they1 possess much and are Rich: For the poor take the Rich for worldlings. But God giveth not to all alike: He putteth ten talents into the hands of one servant, and but one into anothers: And to whom men commit much, of them will they require the more: Therefore to be entrusted with more than others, is no sin, unless they betray that trust.