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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.
And for your poverty and suffering, is it not against your will? You cannot deny it: And will God save any man, for that which is against his will? You would have riches, and honour, and pleasure, and your good things in this life as well as others, if you could tell how: You love the world as well as others, if you could get more of it. And to be carnal and worldly for so poor a pittance, and to have the world when you suffer in it, doth make you more unexcusable than the rich. The Devils have suffered more than you; and so have many thousand souls in Hell: And yet they shall be saved never the more. If you are poor in the world, but rich in faith, and holiness, then you may well expect salvation, James 2. 5. But if your sufferings make you no more holy, they do but aggravate1 your sin.
And for your poverty and suffering, is it not against your will? You cannot deny it: And will God save any man, for that which is against his will? You would have riches, and honour, and pleasure, and your good things in this life as well as others, if you could tell how: You love the world as well as others, if you could get more of it. And to be carnal and worldly for so poor a pittance, and to have the world when you suffer in it, doth make you more unexcusable than the rich. The Devils have suffered more than you; and so have many thousand souls in Hell: And yet they shall be saved never the more. If you are poor in the world, but rich in faith, and holiness, then you may well expect salvation, Iames 2. 5. But if your sufferings make you no more holy, they do but aggravate1 your sin.
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