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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.
§. 17. Direct. 13. Let Death look your passions frequently in the face. It hath a mortifying virtue;1 and as it showeth us the vanity of the creature, so it taketh down those passions, which creature-interest and deceit have caused. It exciteth reason, and restoreth it to its dominion, and silenceth the rebellion of the senses: A man that is to die to morrow, and knoweth it, would easilier repel to day a temptation to lust, or covetousness, or drunkenness, or revenge, than at another time he could have done: One look into eternity will powerfully rebuke all carnal passions.
§. 17. Direct. 13. Let Death look your passions frequently in the face. It hath a mortifying vertue;1 and as it sheweth us the vanity of the creature, so it taketh down those passions, which creature-interest and deceit have caused. It exciteth reason, and restoreth it to its dominion, and silenceth the rebellion of the senses: A man that is to die to morrow, and knoweth it, would easilier repell to day a temptation to lust, or covetousness, or drunkenness, or revenge, than at another time he could have done: One look into eternity will powerfully rebuke all carnal passions.
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§. 18. Direct. 14. Remember still that God is present: Will you behave your selves passionately before1 him? When the presence of your Prince would calm you? Shall God and his holy Angels see thee like a Bedlam lay by thy reason and mis-behave thy self?
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