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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 7 › Tit. 1. Directions against all sinful Passions in general.
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.
§. 6. Direct. 2. More particularly, let your souls be still possessed with the fear of God, and live as in 1his family under his eye and Government, that his authority may be more powerful than temptations, and your holy converse with him, may make him still more regarded by you than men or any creatures. And then this Sun will put out the lesser lights, and the thunder of his voice will drown the whisperers that would provoke you, and the humming of those wasps which make you so impatient: God would make the creature nothing, and then it would do nothing to disturb you, or carry you into sin.
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§. 7. Direct. 3. Dwell in the delightful Love of God, and in the sweet contemplation of his Love in Christ, 1and •owl over his tender mercies in your thoughts, and let your conversation be with the Holy ones in Heaven, and your work be Thanksgivings and Praise to God: And this will habituate your souls to such a sweetness, and mellowness, and stability, as will resist sinful passion even as heat resisteth cold.
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§. 8. Direct. 4. Keep your Consciences continually tender, and then they will check the first appearance 1of sinful passions; and will smart more with the sin than your passionate natures do with the provocation: A scared Conscience, and a hardened senseless heart is to every sin, as a man that's fast asleep is to thieves: They may come in and do what they will, so they do not waken him: But a tender Conscience is always awake.