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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
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§. 6. Direct. 3. Remember how unable and unfit you are to be Governors of your selves. So blind and ignorant; so biassed by a corrupted will; so turbulent are your passions; so unceasing and powerful is the temptation of your sense and appetite; and so unable are you to protect or reward your selves, that methinks you should fear nothing in this world more, than to be given up to your own hearts lusts, to walk in your own seducing counsels. Psal. 81. 11, 12. The brutish appetite and sense, hath got such dominion over the Reason of carnal unrenewed men, that for such to be governed by themselves, is for a man to be governed by a Swine, or the Rider to be ruled by the Horse.
§. 6. Direct. 3. Remember how unable and unfit you are to be Governours of your selves. So blind and ignorant; so byassed by a corrupted will; so turbulent are your passions; so uncessant and powerfull is the temptation of your sense and appetite; and so unable are you to protect or reward your selves, that methinks you should fear nothing in this world more, than to be given up to your own hearts lusts, to walk in your own seducing counsels. Psal. 81. 11, 12. The brutish appetite and sense, hath got such d•minion over the Reason of carnal unrenewed men, that for such to be governed by themselves, is for a man to be governed by a Swine, or the Rider to be ruled by the Horse.
§. 7. Direct. 4. Remember how great a matter God maketh of his Kingly prerogatives, and of mans 1obedience. The whole tenor of the Scripture will tell you this: his precepts, his promises, his threatenings, his vehement exhortations, his sharp reproofs, the sending of his Son and Spirit; the example of Christ and all the Saints, the Reward prepared for the obedient, and the punishment for the disobedient; all tell you aloud, that God is far from being indifferent, whether you obey his Laws or not. It will teach you to regard that, which you find is so regarded of God.