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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.
3. Not so as may be an outward appearance of such inordinate passions, or as may be a scandal to others, and deter them from Religion as a melancholy hurtful thing.
4. Not as if God would accept the mere external self-afflicting for it self, or as if he loved our hurt, or as if we merited of him by our unprofitable voluntary troubles.
4. Not as if God would accept the meer external self-afflicting for it self, or as if he loved our hurt, or as if we merited of him by our unprofitable voluntary troubles.
But 1. It is a duty to express true godly sorrow by its proper exercise and signs, so far as either the acting of it, or the increase or continuance by the means of those expressions is profitable to our selves.
2. And also so far as is needful to the profiting of others, by showing them the evil of sin, and drawing them to repentance.
2. And also so far as is needful to the profiting of others, by shewing them the evil of sin, and drawing them to repentance.