A26892:832
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.
7. It is a preferring our Naughtiness before his Goodness, as if we would do it Better, or choose better what to do.
8. It is a contempt or denial of the Holiness and Purity of God, which sets him against sin, as Light is against Darkness.
9. It is a violation of Gods Propriety or Dominion, robbing him of the use and service of that which is absolutely and totally his Own.
10. It is a claiming of Propriety in our selves, as if we were our own, and might do with our selves as we list.
11. It is a contempt of the gracious Promises of God by which he allured and bound us to obedience.
11. It is a contempt of the gratious Promises of God by which he allured and bound us to obedience.