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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.
§. 20. Tempt. 10. If this prevail not, the Devil will seek to carry it by noise instead of reason,1 and will seek to keep you in jovial, merry, voluptuous company, that shall plead by Pots, and Plays, and pleasures, and shall daily make a jest of Godliness, and speak of the godly with scorn, as a company of Fanatic Hypocrites.
§. 20. Tempt. 10. If this prevail not, the Devil will seek to carry it by noise instead of reason,1 and will seek to keep you in jovial, merry, voluptuous company, that shall plead by Pots, and Playes, and pleasures, and shall daily make a jest of Godliness, and speak of the godly with scorn, as a company of Fanatick Hypocrites.
- 1Tempt. 10.
§. 21. Direct. 10. But consider, that this is but the rage of fools; that speak of what they never understood?1 Did they ever try the way they speak against. Are they to be believed before God himself? Will they not •at their words at last themselves? Will their merry lives last always? Do they dye as merrily as they live? and bring off themselves as well as they promised to bring off you? He that will be cheated of his salvation, and forsake his God, for the ranting scorns of a distracted sinner, is worthy to be damned.
§. 21. Direct. 10. But consider, that this is but the rage of fools; that speak of what they never understood?1 Did they ever try the way they speak against. Are they to be believed before God himself? Will they not •at their words at last themselves? Will their merry lives last alwayes? Do they dye as merrily as they live? and bring off themselves as well as they promised to bring off you? He that will be cheated of his salvation, and forsake his God, for the ranting scorns of a distracted sinner, is worthy to be damned.