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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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§. 31. Direct. 11. To this end, Overvalue not any private or singular opinions, of your own or 1others: For if once spiritual pride, and ignorance of your own weakness, hath made you espouse some particular opinion as peculiarly your own; you will dote on the brats of your own brains, and will think your conceits to be far more illuminating and necessary than indeed they are, as if mens sincerity lay in the embracing of them, and their salvation on the receiving of them! And then you will make a party for your opinion, and will think all that are against it, deserve to be cast out, as enemies to reformation, or to the truth of God, or to the Church: And perhaps twenty years after experience may bring you to your wits, and make you see, either the falsehood or the smallness, of all those points, which you made so great a matter of; and then what comfort will you have in your persecutions?
§. 31. Direct. 11. To this end, Overvalue not any private or singular opinions, of your own or 1others: For if once spiritual pride, and ignorance of your own weakness, hath made you espouse some particular opinion as peculiarly your own; you will dote on the brats of your own brains, and will think your conceits to be far more illuminating and necessary than indeed they are, as if mens sincerity lay in the embracing of them, and their salvation on the receiving of them! And then you will make a party for your opinion, and will think all that are against it, deserve to be cast out, as enemies to reformation, or to the truth of God, or to the Church: And perhaps twenty years after experience may bring you to your wits, and make you see, either the falshood or the smalness, of all those points, which you made so great a matter of; and then what comfort will you have in your persecutions?
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§. 32. Direct. 12. Obey not the solicitations of selfish passionate disputers. Bishops and Divines falling