A26892:739
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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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.
§. 16. Direct. 3. Still think what dangers, difficulties and enemies you must pass through to this Rest, 1and that all your safety dependeth upon the conduct and assistance of your Guide. And this will bring over self-love to command you strict obedience. You are to pass through the Army of your enemies? And will you here disobey the Captain of your salvation? or would you have him leave you to your selves? Your disease is mortal, and none but Jesus Christ can cure it; and if he cure it not, you are lost for ever: no pain of Gout or Stone is comparable to your everlasting pain! And yet will you not be obedient to your Physician? Think when a Temptation comes, If there were a narrow Bridge over the deepest Gulf or River, and all my friends and happiness lay on the further side, and I must needs go over whether I will or not, if Christ would take me by the hand and lead me over, would I be tempted to refuse his help, or to lose his hand? or if he should offer to lose me, and leave me to my self, should I not tremble, and cry out as Peter, Lord save me, Matth. 14. 30. Or as the disciples, Save Master, we perish? And should I not then hold him fast, and most accurately obey him, when he is leading me to Life Eternal, that I may escape the Gulf of endless misery?
§. 16. Direct. 3. Still think what dangers, difficulties and enemies you must pass through to this Rest, 1and that all your safety dependeth upon the conduct and assistance of your Guide. And this will bring over self-love to command you strict obedience. You are to pass through the Army of your enemies? And will you here disobey the Captain of your salvation? or would you have him leave you to your selves? Your disease is mortal, and none but Jesus Christ can cure it; and if he cure it not, you are lost for ever: no pain of Gowt or Stone is comparable to your everlasting pain! And yet will you not be obedient to your Physicion? Think when a Temptation comes, If there were a narrow Bridge over the deepest Gulf or River, and all my friends and happiness lay on the further side, and I must needs go over whether I will or not, if Christ would take me by the hand and lead me over, would I be tempted to refuse his help, or to lose his hand? or if he should offer to lose me, and leave me to my self, should I not tremble, and cry out as Peter, Lord save me,