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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.
§. 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!
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§. 44. Inst. 6. Many separate General and special Grace and Redemption, as inconsistent, when they1 are conjunct! When the General is the proper way and means of accomplishing the ends of the special Grace; and is still supposed: As if God could not give more to some, if he give any thing to all! Or as if he gave nothing to all, if he give more to any! As if he could not deal equally and without difference with all as a Legislator, and righteously with all as a Judge, unless he deal equally and without difference with all as a Benefactor in the free distribution of his gifts! As if he were obliged to make every Worm and Beast a man, and every man a King, and every King an Angel, and every Clod a Star, and every Star a Sun!
§. 44. Inst. 6. Many separate General and special Grace and Redemption, as inconsistent, when they