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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.
§. 49. Direct. 24. But remember God will not be mocked: He knoweth a convinced head from1 a holy heart: To think you are Rich, will not make you rich: To believe that you are well, or to know the remedy, is not enough to make you well. You may dream that you eat, and yet awake hungry: Isa. 29. 8. All the Land or money which you see is not therefore your own. To know that you should be holy, maketh your unholiness to have no excuse: Ahab did not scape by believing that he should return in peace: Self-flattery in so great and weighty a case, is the greatest folly. If you know these things, happy are ye if you do them, John 13. 17.
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§. 50. Tempt. 25. Another great Temptation is, by hiding from men the intrinsic evil and odiousness 1of •in. What harm (saith the Drunkard, and Adulterer, and voluptuous Sensualists) is there in all this, that Preachers make so great ado against it? What hurt is this to God or man? that they would make us believe we must be damned for it, and that Christ dyed for it? and that the Holy Ghost must mortify it? Wherefore, say the Jews, Jer. 16. 10. hath God pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed—He that knoweth not God, knoweth not what sin against God is: especially when the Love of it, and Delight in it blindeth them.
§. 50. Tempt. 25. Another great Temptation is, by hiding from men the intrinsick evil and odiousness 1