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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.
§. 74. Tempt. 7. But, saith the Tempter, it cannot be a mortal reigning sin, because it is not committed 1with the whole heart, nor without some struggling and resistance: Dost thou not feel the Spirit striving against the flesh? And so it is with the Regenerate, Gal. 5. 17. Rom. 7. 20, 21, 22, 23. The good which thou dost not do, thou wouldst do; and the evil, which thou dost, thou wouldst not do: so then it is no more thou that dost it, but sin that dwelleth in thee. In a sensual unregenerate person, there is but one party, there is nothing but flesh; but thou feelest the combat between the Flesh and the Spirit within thee.
§. 74. Tempt. 7. But, saith the Tempter, it cannot be a mortal reigning sin, because it is not committed 1with the whole heart, nor without some strugling and resistance: Dost thou not feel the Spirit striving against the flesh? And so it is with the Regenerate, Gal. 5. 17. Rom. 7. 20, 21, 22, 23. The good which thou dost not do, thou wouldst do; and the evil, which thou dost, thou wouldst not do: so then it is no more thou that dost it, but sin that dwelleth in thee. In a sensual unregenerate person, there is but one party, there is nothing but flesh; but thou feelest the combat between the Flesh and the Spirit within thee.
- 1Tempt. 7.
§. 75. Direct. 7. This is a snare so subtle and dangerous, that you have need of eyes in your head1