A26892:7173
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.
7. It usually best suiteth with the most carnal minds, and more corrupteth the affections and passions; ⟨p. 878⟩as full experience proveth: Those that most love and use them are not reformed by them, but commonly are the most loose ungodly sensual people.
8. The best and wisest persons least relish them, and are commonly most against them. And they are best able to make experiment, what doth most help or hurt the soul. Therefore when the sensual say, We profit by them, as much as by Sermons, they do but speak according to their sense and lust: As one that hath the Green-Sickness may say, C•als and Clay and Ashes do me more good than meat: because they are not so fit to judge, as those that have a healthful state and appetite. And it1 seldom pleaseth the Conscience of a dying man, to remember the time he spent at Stage-plays.
8. The best and wisest persons least relish them, and are commonly most against them. And they are best able to make experiment, what doth most help or hurt the soul. Therefore when the sensual say, We profit by them, as much as by Sermons, they do but speak according to their sense and lust: As one that hath the Green-Sickness may say, C•als and Clay and Ashes do me more good than meat: because they are not so fit to judge, as those that have a healthful state and appetite. And it1 seldome pleaseth the Conscience of a dying man, to remember the time he spent at Stage-playes.