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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.
§. 61. Direct. 30. But O how great a difference is between a converted and an unconverted sinner!1 between the failings of a Child, and the contempt of a Rebel! between a sinner that hath no gross or mortal sin, and hateth, bewaileth, and striveth against his infirmities; and a sinner that loveth his sin, and is loth to leave it, and maketh light of it, and loveth not a holy life. God will one day show you a difference between these two, when you see that there are sinners that are justified and saved, and sinners that are condemned.
§. 61. Direct. 30. But O how great a difference is between a converted and an unconverted sinner!1 between the failings of a Child, and the contempt of a Rebel! between a sinner that hath no gross or mortal sin, and hateth, bewaileth, and striveth against his infirmities; and a sinner that loveth his sin, and is loth to leave it, and maketh light of it, and loveth not a holy life. God will one day shew you a difference between these two, when you see that there are siners that are justified and saved, and sinners that are condemned.
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§. 62. But here are many subordinate Temptations by which Satan persuades them that their sins 1Temp. 1. are but infirmities: One is, because their sin is but in the heart, and appeareth not in outward deeds: And they take restraint for sanctification.
§. 62. BUt here are many subordinate Temptations by which Satan perswades them that their sins 1Temp. 1. are but infirmities: One is, because their sin is but in the heart, and appeareth not in outward deeds: And they take restraint for sanctification.