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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
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.
§. 17. Direct. 4. Remember still how bad, and blind, and backward, and deceitful and weak you are 1your selves, and therefore what need you have of the greatest watchfulness, lest you should disobey your Pilot, and lose your Guide, before you are aware. O what a heart have we to watch? A lazy heart that will be loitering or sitting down, when we should be following our Lord. A foolish heart that will let him go while we play with every play-fellow in our way: A cowardly heart that will steal away, or draw back in danger, when it should follow our General. A treacherous heart that will give us the slip, and deceive us, when we seemed surest of it. A purr-blind heart, that even when it followeth Christ our Guide, is hardly kept from missing the Bridge, and falling into the Gulf of misery. Think well of these, and you will obey your Governor.
§. 17. Direct. 4. Remember still how bad, and blind, and backward, and deceitful and weak you are 1your selves, and therefore what need you have of the greatest watchfulness, lest you should disobey your Pilot, and lose your Guide, before you are aware. O what a heart have we to watch? A lazy heart that will be loytering or sitting down, when we should be following our Lord. A foolish heart that will let him go while we play with every play-fellow in our way: A cowardly heart that will steal away, or draw back in danger, when it should follow our General. A treacherous heart that will give us the slip, and deceive us, when we seemed surest of it. A pur-blind heart, that even when it followeth Christ our Guide, is hardly kept from missing the Bridge, and falling into the Gulf of misery. Think well of these, and you will obey your Governour.
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§. 18. Direct. 5. Forget not the fruits of your former obedience and disobedience; if you would be1