A26892:8298
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.
§. 14. Consid. 8. Consider how great a crime it is, for a Worm to usurp the authority of God, and 1censure him for not doing justice, and to presume to anticipate his judgement, and take the Sword as it were out of his hands: as all do that will be their own avengers. It is the Magistrate and not you that beareth the Sword of public Justice; and what he doth not, God will do in his time and way: Dearly beloved, avenge not your selves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance it mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger feed him; if he thirst give him drink: For in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil (that is, the evil that is done against you) but overcome evil with good: Rom. 12. 19, 20, 21. He that becometh a Revenger for himself, doth by his actions as it were say to God, Thou art unjust, and dost not do me justice, and therefore I will do it for my self. And shall such an impatient blaspheming Atheist go unpunished.
§. 14. Consid. 8. Consider how great a crime it is, for a Worm to usurp the authority of God, and 1censure him for not doing justice, and to presume to anticipate his judgement, and take the Sword as it were out of his hands: as all do that will be their own avengers. It is the Magistrate and not you that beareth the Sword of publick Justice; and what he doth not, God will do in his time and way: Dearly beloved, avenge not your selves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance it mine, I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger feed him; if he thirst give him drink: For in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil (that is, the evil that is done against you) but overcome evil with good: Rom. 12. 19, 20, 21. He that becometh a Revenger for himself, doth by his actions as it were say to God, Thou art unjust, and dost not do me justice, and therefore I will do it for my self. And shall such an impatient blaspheming Atheist go unpunished.
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