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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.
§. 5. 2. The diseases of the Will are in its Inclination and its Acts: 1. An inordinate Inclination to the pleasing of the fleshly appetite and fantasy, and to all Carnal baits and Temporal things, that tend to please it; and inordinate acts of desire accordingly. 2. An irrational backwardness to God, and grace, and spiritual good, and a Refusal or Nolition in act accordingly. These are in the will, 1. Because it is become much subject to the sensitive appetite, and hath debased it self, and contracted by its sinful acts, a sensual inclination, the flesh having the dominion in a corrupted soul. 2. Because the Intellect being also corrupted, oft times mis-leadeth it, by over-valuing transient things. 3. Because the ⟨p. 97⟩Will is become destitute (in its corrupted state) of the power of Divine Love, or an Inclination to God and holy things, which should countermand the seduction of carnal objects. 4. And the understanding is much destitute of the Light that should lead them higher. 5. Because the rage of the corrupted appetite is still seducing it. Mark therefore for the right understanding of this our greatest malady.
§. 5. 2. The diseases of the Will are in its Inclination and its Acts: 1. An inordinate Inclination to the pleasing of the fleshly appetite and fantasie, and to all Carnal baits and Temporal things, that tend to please it; and inordinate acts of desire accordingly. 2. An irrational backwardness to God, and grace, and spiritual good, and a Refusal or Nolition in act accordingly. These are in the will, 1. Because it is become much subject to the sensitive appetite, and hath debased it self, and contracted by its sinful acts, a sensual inclination, the flesh having the dominion in a corrupted soul. 2. Because the Intellect being also corrupted, oft times mis-leadeth it, by over-valuing transient things. 3. Because the ⟨p. 97⟩Will is become destitute (in its corrupted state) of the power of Divine Love, or an Inclination to God and holy things, which should countermand the seduction of carnal objects. 4. And the understanding is much destitute of the Light that should lead them higher. 5. Because the rage of the corrupted appetite is still seducing it. Mark therefore for the right understanding of this our greatest malady.