A26892:817
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.
However if it be too hard for us to trace our own souls in all their motions, it is certain that the will of Man is the first subject of Moral good and evil: And uncertainties must not make us deny that which is certain.
The Reader who understandeth the importance and consequence of these points, I am sure will pardon me for this interposition of these difficult controverted points, (which I purposely avoid where I judge them not very needful in order to the defence or clearing of the plainer common truths): And as for others I must bear their censure.
§. 9. The Degree of sinfulness in the will lieth in a stiffness, and obstinacy, a tenaciousness, of deceit•••• temporal Good, and an Eagerness after it; and stubborn averseness to spiritual good as it is against1 that temporal fleshly good. This is the wills disease.
§. 9. The Degree of sinfulness in the will lyeth in a stiffness, and obstinacy, a tenaciousness, of deceit•••• temporal Good, and an Eagerness after it; and stubborn averseness to spiritual good as it is against1 that temporal fl•shly good. This is the wills disease.
- 1[…]—Non incestum vel aspersione aquae, vel dierum numero tollitur. Cicero 2. de l•gib.