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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
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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.
11. Remember also how little he made provision for the flesh, and never once tasted of any immoderate sinful pleasure. How far was he from a life of voluptuousness and sensuality? Though his avoiding the formal fastings of the Pharisees, made them slander him as a gluttonous person, and a1 wine bibber, as the sober Christians were called Carnivori by those that thought it unlawful to eat flesh; yet so far was he from the guilt of any such sin, that never a desire of it was in his heart. You shall never find in the Gospel that Christ spent half the morning in dressing him, choosing rather to shorten his time for prayer, than not to appear sufficiently neatified, as our empty, worthless painted Gallants do: Nor shall you ever read that he wasted his time in idle visitations, or Cards, or Di•e, or in reading Romances, or hearing Stage-plays. It was another kind of example that our Lord did leave for his disciples.
11. Remember also how little he made provision for the flesh, and never once tasted of any immoderate sinful pleasure. How farr was he from a life of voluptuousness and sensuality? Though his avoiding the formal fastings of the Pharisees, made them slander him as a gluttonous person, and a1 wine bibber, as the sober Christians were called Carnivori by those that thought it unlawful to eat flesh; yet so farr was he from the guilt of any such sin, that never a desire of it was in his heart. You shall never find in the Gospel that Christ spent half the morning in dressing him, choosing rather to shorten his time for prayer, than not to appear sufficiently neatified, as our empty, worthless painted Gallants do: Nor shall you ever read that he wasted his time in idle visitations, or Cards, or Di•e, or in reading Romances, or hearing Stage-plays. It was another kind of example that our Lord did leave for his disciples.