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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.
§. 19. Direct. 15. Have still some pertinent scripture ready to rebuke thy passions: That thou mayst1 say as Christ to Satan, Thus it is written. Speak to it in the name and word of God: Though the bare words will not charm these evil spirits, yet the authority will curb them. For this word is quick 2and powerful, a discerner of the thoughts, Heb. 4. 12. mighty though God, to the pulling down of stro•• holds, casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God, and bringeth into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
§. 19. Direct. 15. Have still some pertinent scripture ready to rebuke thy passions: That thou mayst1 say as Christ to Satan, Thus it is written. Speak to it in the name and word of God: Though the bare words will not charm these evil spirits, yet the authority will curb them. For this word is quick 2and powerful, a discerner of the throughts, Heb. 4. 12. mighty though God, to the pulling down of stro•• holds, casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth it self against the knowledge of God, and bringeth into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
- 1Direct. 15.
- 22 Cor. 10. 4, 5.