A26892:8435
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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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.
§. 27. Direct. 7. Pride also must be subdued if you would not be persecutors: For a proud man1 cannot endure to have his word disobeyed, though it contradict the Word of God: Nor can he endure to be reproved by the Preachers of the Gospel; but will do as Herod with John Baptist, or as Asa or Amaziah, by the Prophets! Till the soul be humbled, it will not bear the sharp remedies which our Saviour hath prescribed; but will persecute him that would administer them.
§. 27. Direct. 7. Pride also must be subdued if you would not be persecutors: For a proud man1 cannot endure to have his word disobeyed, though it contradict the Word of God: Nor can he endure to be reproved by the Preachers of the Gospel; but will do as Herod with Iohn Baptist, or as Asa or Amaziah, by the Prophets! Till the soul be humbled, it will not bear the sharp remedies which our Saviour hath prescribed; but will persecute him that would administer them.
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§. 28. Direct. 8. Passion must be subdued, and the mind kept calm, if you would avoid the guilt of1 persecution. Asa was in a rage when he imprisoned the Prophet: (A fit work for a raging man). And Nebuchadnezzar was in a rage and fury when he commanded the punishment of the three witnesses, Dan. 3. 13. The wrath of man worketh not the will of God, James 1. 20. The nature of wrathfulness tendeth to hurting those you are angry with. And wrath is impatient, and unjust, and will not hear what men[…] say, but rashly passeth unrighteous sentence. And it blindeth Reason, so that it cannot see the truth.