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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.
§. 21. Direct. 17. Keep as far from all occasions of your passions as other duties will allow you: And 1contrive your affairs and occasions into as great an opposition as may be to the temptation. Run not into temptation if you would be delivered from evil: Much might be done by a willing prudent man, by the very ordering of his affairs: God and Satan works by means: let the means then be regarded.
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§. 22. Direct. 18. Have a due care of your bodies, that no distemper be cherished in them, which causeth 1the distemper of the soul. Passions have a very great dependence on the temperament of the body: And much of the cure of them lieth (when it is possible) in the bodies emendation.
§. 22. Direct. 18. Have a due care of your bodies, that no distemper be cherished in them, which causeth 1the distemper of the soul. Passions have a very great dependance on the temperament of the body: And much of the cure of them lieth (when it is possible) in the bodyes emendation.
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§. 23. Direct. 19. Turn all your passions into the right channel, and make them all Holy, using them for 1