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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
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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.
§. 51. Direct. 25. Against this I entreat you to ponder on those forty intrinsical evils in sin, which1 I have after named, Chap. 3. Dir. 8. §. 16. and the aggravations, §. 17, 18. If the Devil can but once persuade you, that sin is harmless, all Faith, all Religion, all Honesty, and your souls and all are gone. For then all Gods Laws and Government must be fictions: Then there is no work for Christ2 as a Saviour, or the Spirit as a Sanctifier to do: Then all Ordinances and Means are troublesome Vanities: and Godliness and Obedience deserve to be banished from the earth, as unnecessary troublers of mankind: Then may this poison be safely taken and made your food. But O how mad a conceit is this! How quickly will God make the proudest know, what harm it was to refuse the Government of his Maker, and set up the Government of his beastly appetite and misguided will! and that sin is bad, if Hell be bad.
§. 51. Direct. 25. Against this I intreat you to ponder on those forty intrinsecal evils in sin, which1 I have after named, Chap. 3. Dir. 8. §. 16. and the aggravations, §. 17, 18. If the Devil can but once perswade you, that sin is harmless, all Faith, all Religion, all Honesty, and your souls and all are gone. For then all Gods Laws and Government must be fictions: Then there is no work for Christ2 as a Saviour, or the Spirit as a Sanctifier to do: Then all Ordinances and Means are troublesome Vanities: and Godliness and Obedience deserve to be banished from the earth, as unnecessary troublers of mankind: Then may this poyson be safely taken and made your food. But O how mad a conceit is this! How quickly will God make the proudest know, what harm it was to refuse the Government of his Maker, and set up the Goverment of his beastly appetite and misguided will! and that sin is bad, if Hell be bad.