A26892:741
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.
§. 18. Direct. 5. Forget not the fruits of your former obedience and disobedience; if you would be1 kept in an obedient frame. Remember that obedience hath been sweetest afterward: and that you never yet found cause to repent or be ashamed of it. Remember that the fruit of sin was bitter, and that when your eyes were opened, and you saw your shame, you would fain have fled from the face of God; and that then it appeared another thing to you, then it seemed in the committing. Remember ⟨p. 88⟩what groans, and hearts grief it hath cost you? and into what fears it brought you of the wrath of G•d: […] how long it was before your broken bones were healed; and what it cost both Christ and you? And th•s will make the very name and first approach of •in, to cast you into a preventing fear. A B•ast that hath once fallen into a Gulf or Quick-sand, will hardly be driven into the same again: A Fish that was once s••icken and scaped the hook, will fear and fly from it the next time: A Bird that hath once escap▪t the S•are o• the Talons of the Hawk, is afterwards afraid of the fight or noise of such a thing. Remember where you fell, and what it cost you, and what you scaped which it might have cost you, and you will obey more accurately hereafter.
§. 18. Direct. 5. Forget not the fruits of your former obedience and disobedience; if you would be1 kept in an obedient frame. Remember that obedience hath been sweetest afterward: and that you never yet found cause to repent or be ashamed of it. Remember that the fruit of sin was bitter, and that when your eyes were opened, and you saw your shame, you would fain have fled from the face of God; and that then it appeared another thing to you, then it seemed in the committing. Remember ⟨p. 88⟩