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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.
§. 8. Direct. 7. Keep out, or quickly cast out all inordinate passions: For Passions do violently press1 the thoughts, and forcibly carry them away. If anger, or grief, or fear, or any carnal Love, or joy, or pleasure be admitted, they will command your thoughts to run out upon their several objects. And when you rebuke your thoughts, and call them in, they will not •aer you, till you get them out of the crowd and noise of passion. As in the heat of civil wars no Government is well exercised in a Kingdom: And as violent storms disable the mariners to govern the ship, and save it and themselves; so passions are too stormy a Region for the Thoughts to be well Governed in: Till your souls be reduced to a calm condition, your thoughts will be tumultuating, and hurried that way that the tempests drive them. Till these wars be ended, your Thoughts will be licentious, and partakers in the rebellion.
§. 8. Direct. 7. Keep out, or quickly cast out all inordinate passions: For Passions do violently press1 the thoughts, and forcibly carry them away. If anger, or grief, or fear, or any carnal Love, or joy, or pleasure be admitted, they will command your thoughts to run out upon their several objects. And when you rebuke your thoughts, and call them in, they will not •aer you, till you get them out of the crowd and noise of passion. As in the heat of civil wars no Government is well exercised in a Kingdom: And as violent storms disable the marryners to govern the ship, and save it and themselves; so passions are too stormy a Region for the Thoughts to be well Governed in: Till your souls be reduced to a calm condition, your thoughts will be tumultuating, and hurryed that way that the tempests drive them. Till these warrs be ended, your Thoughts will be licentious, and partakers in the rebellion.
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