A26892:8295
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.
§. 11. Consid. 5. Remember also that you have need of forgiveness from others, as well as they 1have need of it from you. Have you wronged none! Have you provoked none! Have you not passions which must be pardoned? And a nature which must be born with? Can so corrupt a creature as man is, be no annoyance to those he liveth with? Sure all the sins which burden your self, and displease the Lord, must needs be some trouble to all about you▪ And he that needeth pardon, is obliged the more to pardon others.
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§. 12. Consid. 6. Nay, it is the unhappiness of all mankind, that their corruptions will in some measure 1be injurious to all that they have to do with; and it is impossible for such distempered sinners to live together, and not by their mistakes, or selfishness, or passions, to exercise the patience and forbearance of each other. Therefore you must either be malicious and revengeful against all mankind, or else against none on such accounts as are common to all.
§. 12. Consid. 6. Nay, it is the unhappiness of all mankind, that their corruptions will in some measure 1be injurious to all that they have to do with; and it is impossible for such distempered sinners to live together, and not by their mistakes, or selfishness, or passions, to exercise the patience and forbearance of each other. Therefore you must either be malitious and revengeful against all mankind, or else against none on such accounts as are common to all.
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