A26892:7397
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.
16. Yea, it will tempt men at last to be weary of their own Religion, because they will find it an unsatisfactory, uncomfortable, tiresome thing, to do their own superstitious work.
17. And they will tempt all that they draw into this opinion, to be weary of Religion also. And truly had not Gods part, which is wise, and good, and pleasant, prevailed against the hurtfulness of mens superstition, which is foolish, bad and unpleasant, Religion had ere this been cast off as a wearisome distracting thing: or which is as bad, been used but to delude men.
18. Yea, it will tempt men at last to Infidelity: For Satan will quickly teach them to argue, that if Scripture be a perfect particular Rule, for forty things that were never there, then it is defective, and is not of God, but an undertaking of that which is not performed, and therefore is but a deceit.
19. And the notoriousness and ridiculousness of this error, will tempt the profane to make Religious people a scorn.
19. And the notoriousness and ridiculousness of this error, will tempt the prophane to make Religious people a scorn.