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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.
18. It is a contempt of the person, office, sufferings, and grace of Jesus Christ, who came to save us from our sins, and to destroy the works of the Devil; being contrary to his bloodshed, authority and healing work.
19. It is a contradicting, fighting against, and, in that act prevailing against, the sanctifying office and work of the Holy Ghost, that moveth us against sin, and to obedience.
20. It is a contempt of Holiness, and a defacing (in that measure) the Image of God upon the soul, or a rejecting it: A vilifying of all those Graces which are contrary to the sin.
21. It is a pleasing of the Devil, the enemy of God and us, and an obeying him before God.
22, It is the fault of a Rational Creature, that had Reason given him, to do better.