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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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§. 4. Direct. 3. Learn but to Love your neighbour as your self, and this will make it easy to you both 1to forbear him and forgive him. With your self you are not apt to be so angry. Against your self you bear no malice, nor desire no revenge that shall do you hurt. As you are angry with your self penitently for the faults you have committed, but not so as to desire your own destruction, or final hurt; but with such a displeasure as tendeth to your recovery; so also must you do by others.
§. 4. Direct. 3. Learn but to Love your neighbour as your self, and this will make it easie to you both 1to forbear him and forgive him. With your self you are not apt to be so angry. Against your self you bear no malice, nor desire no revenge that shall do you hurt. As you are angry with your self penitently for the faults you have committed, but not so as to desire your own destruction, or final hurt; but with such a displeasure as tendeth to your recovery; so also must you do by others.
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Direct. 4. To this end be sure to mortify your selfishness. For it is the inordinate respect1 that men have to themselves, which maketh them aggravate the faults of all that are against them, or offend them. Be humble and self-denying and you will think your selves so mean and inconsiderable, that no fault can be very great, nor deserve much displeasure, merely as it is against you. A proud self-esteeming man is easily provoked and hardly reconciled without great submission: because he thinketh so highly of himself, that he thinketh heinously of all that is said or done against him; and he is so over-dear to himself, that he is impatient with his adversary.