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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.
§. 7. Direct. 6. Remember how near kin the Thought is to the deed; and what a tendency it hath to 1it. Let Christ himself tell you, Matth. 7. 22. But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the Judgement; vers. 28. I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. A malicious thought and a malicious deed are from the same spring, and have the same nature: Only the deed is the riper serpent, that can sting another, when the Thought is as the younger serpent that hath only the venomous nature in it self. A lustful thought is from the same defiled puddle, as actual filthiness: And the thought is but the passage to the action: It is but the same sin in its minority, tending to maturity.
§. 7. Direct. 6. Remember how near kin the Thought is to the deed; and what a tendencie it hath to 1it. Let Christ himself tell you, Matth. 7. 22. But I say unto you that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the Iudgement; vers. 28. I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. A malicious thought and a malicious deed are from the same spring, and have the same nature: Only the deed is the riper serpent, that can sting another, when the Thought is as the younger serpent that hath only the venemous nature in it self. A lustful thought is from the same defiled puddle, as actual filthiness: And the thought is but the passage to the action: It is but the same sin in its minority, tending to maturity.
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