A26892:8269
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.
Tit. 2. Advice against Self-murder.
Though Self-murder be a sin which Nature hath as strongly inclined man against, as any sin in the World that I remember, and therefore I shall say but little of it; yet experience telleth us that it is a sin that some persons are in danger of, and therefore I shall not pass it by.
THough Self-murder be a sin which Nature hath as strongly inclined man against, as any sin in the World that I remember, and therefore I shall say but little of it; yet experience telleth us that it is a sin that some persons are in danger of, and therefore I shall not pass it by.
The prevention of it lieth in the avoiding of these following Causes of it.
The prevention of it lyeth in the avoiding of these following Causes of it.
§. 1. Direct. 1. The commonest cause is prevailing Melancholy which is near to madness: therefore 1