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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.
8. Remember how his Zeal and Love endured the reproach, and resisted the opposition of his friends, who went to lay hold on him as if he had been besides himself: And •ow he bid Peter [Get 1behind me Satan; thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things of God, but those of men] when in ca•nal Love, and wisdom he rebuked him for resolving to lay down his life, saying [Be it far from thee, this shall not be unto thee.] To teach us to expect that carnal Love, and Wisdom in our nearest friends, will rise up against us in the work of God, to discourage us both from duty and from sufferings: and that all are to be shaken off; and counted as the instruments of Satan, that would tempt us to be unfaithful to our trust and duty, and to savour our selves by a sinful avoiding of the sufferings which God doth call us to undergo.
8. Remember how his Zeal and Love endured the reproach, and resisted the opposition of his friends, who went to lay hold on him as if he had been besides himself: And •ow he bid Peter [Get 1behind me Satan; thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things of God, but those of men] when in ca•nal Love, and wisdom he rebuked him for resolving to lay down his life, saying [Be it farr from thee, this shall not be unto thee.] To teach us to expect that carnal Love, and Wisdom in our nearest friends, will rise up against us in the work of God, to discourage us both from duty and from sufferings: and that all are to be shaken off; and counted as the instruments of Satan, that would tempt us to be unfaithful to our trust and duty, and to savour our selves by a sin•ul avoiding of the sufferings which God doth call us to undergo.
- 1Mat 3. 20, 21▪ Mat. 16. 22, 23.