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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.
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.
§. 42. Inst. 4. Many would separate Nature and Grace which God the author of both conjoineth.1 When Grace supposeth Nature, and in her Garden soweth all her seed, and exciteth and rectifieth all her powers; yet these men talk as if Nature had been annihilated, or Grace came to annihilate it, and not to cure it. As if the Leprosy and Disease of Nature were Nature it self! And as if Natural Good had been lost as much as Moral Good! As if man were not man, till Grace make him a man!
§. 42. Inst. 4. Many would separate Nature and Grace which God the author of both conjoyneth.1 When Grace supposeth Nature, and in her Garden soweth all her seed, and exciteth and rectifieth all her powers; yet these men talk as if Nature had been annihilated, or Grace came to annihilate it, and not to cure it. As if the Leprosie and Disease of Nature were Nature it self! And as if Natural Good had been lost as much as Moral Good! As if man were not man, till Grace make him a man!
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§. 43. Inst. 5. Many separate the Natural Power of a sinner from his Moral impotency and1 his Natural freedom of will, from his Moral servitude; as if they were inconsistent, when they are conjunct. As if the Natural faculty might not consist with an evil disposition: or a Natural power with an habitual unwillingness to exercise it aright! And as if a sinner were not still a man!
§. 43. Inst. 5. Many separate the Natural Power of a sinner from his Moral impotency and1 his Natural freedome of will, from his Moral servitude; as if they were inconsistent, when they are conjunct. As if the Natural faculty might not consist with an evil disposition: or a Natural power with an habitual unwillingness to exercise it aright! And as if a sinner were not still a man!