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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
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§. 17. 1. How terrible are those words of Christ, Matth. 18. 6. But who so shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the Sea. How terrible is that character which Paul giveth of the Jews, 1 Thess. 2. 15, 16. Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own Prophets, and have persecuted us: and they please not God, and are contrary to all men; forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sins always; for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. Such terrors against persecutors are so common through the Scriptures, that it would be tedious to recite them.
§. 17. 1. How terrible are those words of Christ, Matth. 18. 6. But who so shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the Sea. How terrible is that character which Paul giveth of the Jews, 1 Thess. 2. 15, 16. Who both killed the Lord Iesus and their own Prophets, and have persecuted us: and they please not God, and are contrary to all men; forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sins alwayes; for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost. Such terrors against persecutors are so common through the Scriptures, that it would be tedious to recite them.
§. 18. 2. And for examples, the captivity first, and afterward the casting off of the Jews, may serve in stead of many, 2 Chron. 36. 16. But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words and misused his Prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. And of their casting off, see