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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. 3. Directions against sinful Desires and Discontent.
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§. 5. Direct. 3. Let every sinful Desire humble you, for the worldliness and fleshliness which it discovereth 1to be yet unmortified in you: and turn your Desires to the mortifying of that flesh and concupiscence which is the cause. If you did not yet love the world, and the things that are in the world, you would not2 be so eager for them. If you were not too carnal, and did not mind too much the things of the flesh, you would not be so earnest for them as you are. It should be a grievous thing to your hearts to consider, what worldliness and fleshliness this showeth to be yet there. That you should set so much by the creature, as to be unable to bear the want of it: Is this renouncing the world and flesh? The thing you need is not that which you so much desire; but a better heart, to know the Vanity of the Creature, to be dead to the world, and to be able to bear the want or loss of any thing in it; and a fuller mortification of the flesh: mortifying and not satisfying it, is your work.
§. 5. Direct. 3. Let every sinful Desire humble you, for the worldliness and fleshliness which it discocovereth 1to be yet unmortified in you: and turn your Desires to the mortifying of that flesh and concupiscence which is the cause. If you did not yet love the world, and the things that are in the world, you would not2 be so eager for them. If you were not too carnal, and did not mind too much the things of the flesh, you would not be so earnest for them as you are. It should be a grievous thing to your hearts to consider, what worldliness and fleshliness this sheweth to be yet there. That you should set so much by the creature, as to be unable to bear the want of it: Is this renouncing the world and flesh? The thing you need is not that which you so much desire; but a better heart, to know the Vanity of the Creature, to be dead to the world, and to be able to bear the want or loss of any thing in it; and a fuller mortification of the flesh: mortifying and not satisfying it, is your work.
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