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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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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.
§. 51. Direct. 29. Remember the wonderful variety of mens apprehensions, which must be supposed 1in all Laws! Mens faces are scarce more various and unlike, than their understandings are: For besides that nature hath diversified intellects as well as faces, the diversity and unlikeness is much increased, by variety of educations, company, representations, accidents, cogitations, and many other causes. It is wiser to make Laws that all men shall take the same Physic, or eat only the same meat, or that all shoos shall be of a size, and all clothes of the same bigness; upon supposition that all mens health or appetite, or feet, or bodies, are alike; than to make Laws that all men shall agree (or say that they agree) in every opinion circumstance or ceremony in matters of Religion.
§. 51. Direct. 29. Remember the wonderful variety of mens apprehensions, which must be supposed 1in all Laws! Mens faces are scarce more various and unlike, than their understandi•gs are: For besides that nature hath diversified intellects as well as faces, the diversity and unlikeness is much increased, by variety of educations, company, representations, accidents, cogitations, and many other causes. It is wiser to make Laws that all men shall take the same Physick, or eat only the same meat, or that all shoos shall be of a size, and all cloaths of the same bigness; upon supposition that all mens health or appetite, or feet, or bodies, are alike; than to make Laws that all men shall agree (or say that they agree) in every opinion circumstance or ceremony in matters of Religion.
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§. 52. Direct. 30. Remember especially, that most Christians are ignorant and of weak understandings,1