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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.
Part 3 › Chapter 10: Directions about our Communion with Holy Souls Departed, and now with Christ.
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.
Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites! because ye build the Tombs of the Prophets, and garnish the Sepulchres of the righteous; and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets: wherefore ye be witnesses to your selves that ye are the Children of them which killed the Prophets. Fil• ye up then the measure of your fathers: Ye Serpents, ye generation of Vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell. I know that neither did the Pharisees, nor do the Papists, believe that those whom they murdered were Saints; but Deceivers and Heretics, and the troublers of the World: But if Charity be the grace most necessary to salvation; then sure it will not keep any man from damnation, that he had malice and uncharitableness sufficient to persuade him, that the members of Christ were Children of the Devil. But thus God will force even the persecutors and haters of his Saints to honour them. And if he constrain his enemies to it, his servants should not be backward to do it according to his will.
Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites! because ye build the T•mbes of the Prophets, and garnish the Sepulchres of the righteous; and say, If we had been in the dayes of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets: wherefore ye be witnesses to your selves that ye are the Children of them which killed the Prophets. Fil• ye up then the measure of your fathers: Ye Serpents, ye generation of Vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Hell. I know that neither did the Pharisees, nor do the Papists, believe that those whom they murdered were Saints; but Deceivers and Hereticks, and the troublers of the World: But if Charity be the grace most necessary to salvation; then sure it will not keep any man from damnation, that he had malice and uncharitableness sufficient to perswade him, that the members of Christ were Children of the Devil. But thus God will force even the persecutors and haters of his Saints to honour them. And if he constrain his enemies to it, his servants should not be backward to do it according to his will.