A26892:8301
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.
Even as I have heard of some passionate Wives and Children, who have hanged themselves, or cut their throats, to be revenged on their Husbands or Children by grieving them.
§. 17. Consid. 11. Remember that malice and hurtfulness are the special sins and Image of the Devil. 1All sin is from him as the Tempter: but some sins are so eminently his own, that they may be called the Nature and Image of the Devil; and those are principally, Rebellion against God▪ Malignity or enmity to good; Pride or self-exaltation; Lying and Calumny; and Malice, Hurtfulness and Murder: These are above the sins of mere sensuality or carnality, and most properly denominate men (in whom they prevail) the Serpents seed. I speak but as Christ himself hath spoken, John 8. 44. to those that were esteemed the wisest and most (ceremoniously) religious of those times: Ye are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do: He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him: When he speaketh a Lye, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. And what pity is it that a man that should bear the Image of God, should be transformed as it were into an incarnate Devil, and by being like to Satan, and bearing his Image!
§. 17. Consid. 11. Remember that malice and hurtfulness are the special sins and Image of the Devil. 1All sin is from him as the Tempter: but some sins are so eminently his own, that they may be called the Nature and Image of the Devil; and those are principally, Rebellion against God▪ Malignity or enmity to good; Pride or self-exaltation; Lying and Calumny; and Malice, Hurtfulness and Murder: These are above the sins of meer sensuality or carnality, and most properly denominate men (in whom they prevail) the Serpents seed. I speak but as Christ himself hath spoken,