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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. It is a setting up of our f•lly in the place of Gods Wisdom, and preferring it before him; as if ⟨p. 99⟩we were wiser to know how to Govern our selves, and to know what is fittest and best for us now to do, than God is.
6. It is a contempt of the Goodness of God as he is the maker of the Law: As if he had not done that which is Best, but that which may be corrected or contradicted; and there were some Evil in it1 to be avoided.
- 1See Plutarcks Tract. entitled, That vice is sufficient to make a man wretched. Si non ipso honesto movemur ut viri boni simus, sed utilitate aliqua, atque fructus callidi sumus, non boni fi emolumentis, non suapte natura, virtus experitur, vana erit virtus, quae malitia rectè dicitur. P. scal. p. 744.
7. It is a preferring our Naughtiness before his Goodness, as if we would do it Better, or choose better what to do.