A26892:822
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.
§. 12. 5. The sin of the Affections, or Passions consisteth in this: That they are too easily, and violently moved by the sensitive interest and appetite; and are Habitually prone to such carnal inordinate motions, running before the understanding and will (some of them) and soliciting and urging them to evil; and resisting and disobeying the commands of Reason and the Will: but dull and backward to things spiritually good, and to execute the right dictates of the Mind and Will.
§. 12. 5. The sin of the Affections, or Passions consisteth in this: That they are too easily, and violently moved by the sensitive interest and appetite; and are Habitually prone to such carnal inordinate motions, running before the understanding and will (some of them) and solliciting and urging them to evil; and resisting and disobeying the commands of Reason and the Will: but dull and backward to things spiritually good, and to execute the right dictates of the Mind and Will.
§. 13. 6. The sin of the sensitive appetite consisteth in the inordinate rage or immoderateness to its object, which causeth it to disobey the Commands of Reason, and to become the Great inciter of Rebellion in the soul; violently urging the Mind and Will to consent to its desires. Materially this dependeth much on the temper of the body: but formally this also is so far sinful as (positively or privatively, mediately or immediately) it is voluntary. To have an Appetite simply to the object of Appetite is no sin: But to have a diseased, inordinate, unruly appetite, is a sin: not primarily in it self considered; but as it is voluntary; as it is the Appetite of a Rational free agent, that hath thus disordered the frame of its own Nature.
§. 13. 6. The sin of the sensitive appetite consisteth in the inordinate rage or immoderateness to its object, which causeth it to disobey the Commands of Reason, and to become the Great inciter of Rebellion in the soul; violently urging the Mind and Will to consent to its desires. Materially this dependeth much on the temper of the body: but formally this also is so farr sinful as (positively or privatively, mediately or immediately) it is voluntary. To have an Appetite simply to the object of Appetite is no sin: But to have a diseased, inordinate, unruly appetite, is a sin: not primarily in it self considered; but as it is voluntary; as it is the Appetite of a Rational free agent, that hath thus disordered the frame of its own Nature.