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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.
§. 59. Direct. 29. But, O man, consider what thou dost, and who will have the loss of it! and1 how quickly it may be too late to recall thy adventure! What should put thee on so mad a resolution? Is sin so good? Is Hell so easy? Is thy soul so contemptible? Is Heaven such a trifle? Is God so hard a Master? Is his work so grievous, and his way so bad? Doth he require any thing unreasonable of you? Hath God set you such a grievous task, that it's better venture on damnation, than perform it? You cannot believe this, if you believe him to be God. Come near, and think more deliberately on it, and you will find you might better run from your food, your friend, your life, than from your God, and from a holy life, when you run but into sin and Hell.
§. 59. Direct. 29. But, O man, consider what thou dost, and who will have the loss of it! and1 how quickly it may be too late to recall thy adventure! What should put thee on so mad a resolution? Is sin so good? Is Hell so easie? Is thy soul so contemptible? Is Heaven such a trifle? Is God so hard a Master? Is his work so grievous, and his way so bad? Doth he require any thing unreasonable of you? Hath God set you such a grievous task, that it's better venture on damnation, than perform it? You cannot believe this, if you believe him to be God. Come near, and think more deliberately on it, and you will find you might better run from your food, your friend, your life, than from your God, and from a holy life, when you run but into sin and Hell.
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§. 60. Tempt. 30. Another great Temptation is, in making them believe that their sins are but such 1common infirmities as the best have: They cannot deny but they have their faults; but are not all men sinners! They hope that they are not reigning unpardoned sins.