A26892:7168
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. There are usually so many words materially false (though not proper lies) used in such actings1 of good and evil, as is unsavoury, and tendeth to tempt men to fiction and false speaking.
3. There are usually such multitudes of vain words poured out on the Circumstantials, as are a sin themselves, and tempt the hearers to the like.
4. They usually mix such amorous or other such ensnaring expressions or actions, as are fitted to kindle mens sinful lusts, and to be temptations to the evils which they pretend to cure.