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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.
§. 10. 6. Yea, and you your selves must cast your souls on these greater evils, if by discouragement you turn from the way of Godliness. You must run into Hell for fear of burning: and upon everlasting death, to escape a temporal death, or less: You will choose God for your Enemy, to escape the enmity of man: And how wise a course this is, judge you: when if you do but see that your ways please God, he can make your enemies be at peace with you, if he see it for your good, Prov. 16. 7. If you will fear, fear him that can damn the soul.
§. 10. 6. Yea, and you your selves must cast your souls on these greater evils, if by discouragement you turn from the way of Godliness. You must run into Hell for fear of burning: and upon everlasting death, to escape a temporal death, or less: You will choose God for your Enemy, to escape the •nmity of man: And how wise a course this is, judge you: when if you do but see that your wayes please God, he can make your enemies be at peace with you, if he see it for your good, Prov. 16. 7. If you will fear, fear him that can damn the soul.
§. 11. 7. Lastly, Remember what abundance of mercies you have to sweeten your present life, and to make your burden easy to you: You have all that is good for you in this life, and the promise of everlasting joy: For godliness thus is profitable to all things, 1 Tim. 4. 8. What abundance of mercy, have you in your bodies, estates, friends, names, or souls, which are the greatest: What promises and experiences to refresh you? What liberty of access to God? A Christ to rejoice in: A Heaven to rejoice in: and yet shall a stony or a dirty way discourage you more, than these shall comfort you?
§. 11. 7. Lastly, Remember what abundance of mercies you have to sweeten your present life, and to make your burden easie to you: You have all that is good for you in this life, and the promise of everlasting joy: For godliness thus is profitable to all things,