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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.
2. And both to speaker and hearers, humane frailty maketh it hard to be equally affected with the same thing spoken a hundred times, as we are at first when it is new, and when it is clothed in comely variety of expressions. As the same Book affecteth us not at the twentieth reading as it did at the first. Say not, it is a dishonourable weakness to be thus carried by the novelty of things or words: For though that be true, it is a dishonour common to all mankind, and a disease which is your own, and which God alloweth us all lawful means to cure, and to correct the unhappy effects while it is uncured.
2. And both to speaker and hearers, humane frailty maketh it hard to be equally affected with the same thing spoken a hundred times, as we are at first when it is new, and when it is cloathed in comely variety of expressions. As the same Book affecteth us not at the twentieth reading as it did at the first. Say not, it is a dishonourable weakness to be thus carryed by the novelty of things or words: For though that be true, it is a dishonour common to all mankind, and a disease which is your own, and which God alloweth us all lawful means to cure, and to correct the unhappy effects while it is uncured.
12. Lastly, Set forms serve unworthy men to hide their unworthiness by, and to be the matter of a Controversy in which they may vent their envy against them that are abler and holier than themselves.
12. Lastly, Set forms serve unworthy men to hide their unworthiness by, and to be the matter of a Controversie in which they may vent their envy against them that are abler and holyer than themselves.
II. Having now truly showed you the Commodities and Incommodities of both the ways, for the other question, Which of them is the best, I must give you but some Rules to answer it your selves.