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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. Direct. 5. Be not your own Judge in cases of settled malice or revenge; but let some impartial 1sober by stander be the Judge. For a selfish, passionate, distempered mind, is very unlikely to judge aright. And most men have so much of these diseases, that they are very unfit to be Judges in their own case. Ask first some wise impartial man, whether it be best for thee to be malicious and revengeful against such a one that thou thinkest hath greatly wronged thee, or rather to love him and forgive him.
§. 5. Direct. 5. Be not your own Iudge in cases of setled malice or revenge; but let some impartial 1sober by stander be the Iudge. For a selfish, passionate, distempered mind, is very unlikely to judge aright. And most men have so much of these diseases, that they are very unfit to be Judges in their own case. Ask first some wise impartial man, whether it be best for thee to be malitious and revengeful against such a one that thou thinkest hath greatly wronged thee, or rather to love him and forgive him.
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§. 6. Direct. 6. Take time to deliberate upon the matter, and do nothing rashly in the heat of 1passion against another. Wrath and Malice will vanish, if you bring the matter into the light, and use but those effectual Considerations which will show their sinfulness and shame: I shall therefore next here set down some such Considerations, as are most powerful to suppress them.
§. 6. Direct. 6. Take time to deliberate upon the matter, and do nothing rashly in the heat of 1