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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.
§. 15. Direct. 11. Keep a continual apprehension of the danger and odiousness of sinful passions, by 1knowing how full they are of the spawn of many other sins. See the evil of them in the effects. Mark what passion doth in others and your selves: what abundance of evil thoughts and words and deeds do come from sinful passions?
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§. 16. Direct. 12. Observe the immediate troublesome effects, and the disorders of your soul, and so 1turn the fruit of passions against themselves. Mark how they discompose you, and disturb your Reason, and make your minds like muddied waters; and breed a diseased unquietness in you, unfitting you for your work, and breaking your peace; so that you can neither know, nor use, nor enjoy your selves.
§. 16. Direct. 12. Observe the immediate troublesome effects, and the disorders of your soul, and so 1turn the fruit of passions against themselves. Mark how they discompose you, and disturb your Reason, and make your minds like muddyed waters; and breed a diseased unquietness in you, unfitting you for your work, and breaking your peace; so that you can neither know, nor use, nor enjoy your selves.
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§. 17. Direct. 13. Let Death look your passions frequently in the face. It hath a mortifying virtue;