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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 1 › Chapter 6 › Tit. 1. Directions against evil and idle Thoughts.
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.
§. 3. Direct. 2. Be not insensible what a great deal of Duty or sin is in the Thoughts, and of how 1dangerous a signification and consequence a course of evil thoughts is to your souls. They show what a Man is as much as his words or actions do. For as be thinketh in his heart, so is he: Prov. 23. 7. A good man or evil is denominated by the good or evil treasure of the heart, though known to men but by the fruits. O the vile and numerous sins that are committed in mens thoughts, and proceed from mens thoughts! O the precious Time that is lost, in idle and other sinful thoughts? O the good that is hindered hereby both in heart and life! But of this having spoken in the Treatise aforementioned, I proceed.
§. 3. Direct. 2. Be not insensible what a great deal of Duty or sin is in the Thoughts, and of how 1dangerous a signification and consequence a course of evil thoughts is to your souls. They shew what a Man is as much as his words or actions do. For as be thinketh in his heart, so is he: Prov. 23. 7. A good man or evil is denominated by the good or evil treasure of the heart, though known to men but by the fruits. O the vile and numerous sins that are committed in mens thoughts, and proceed from mens thoughts! O the pretious Time that is lost, in idle and other sinful thoughts? O the good that is hindered hereby both in heart and life! But of this having spoken in the Treatise aforementioned, I proceed.
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§. 4. Direct. 3. Above all be sure that you cleanse the Fountain, and destroy those sinful inclinations 1