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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.
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.
§. 3. Direct. 1. Make Gods interest and his word the standard to judge of all affections by. That 1which is against the Love of God, and would abate or hinder it, yea which doth not directly or indirectly tend to further it, is certainly a sinful Love: And so is all that is against his word. For the Love of God is our final act upon our ultimate end, and therefore all that tends not to it, is a sin against our very end, and so against our nature and the use of our faculties.
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§. 4. Direct. 2. Therefore whatever creature is Loved ultimately for it self, and not for a higher end, 1even for God, his service, his honour, his relation to it, or his excellency appearing in it, is sinfully loved. For it is made our God, when it is Loved ultimately for it self.
§. 4. Direct. 2. Therefore whatever creature is Loved ultimately for it self, and not for a higher end, 1even for God, his service, his honour, his relation to it, or his excellencie appearing in it, is sinfully loved. For it is made our God, when it is Loved ultimately for it self.
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§. 5. Direct. 3. Suspect all Love to creatures which is very strong and violent, and easily kindled, and