A26892:848
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.
23. It is all Willingly done and Chosen, by a free-agent that could not be constrained to it.1
- 1Voluntarium est omne peccatum. Tolle excusationem: Nemo peccat invitus. Martin. Dunilens. de Morib. Nihil juterest quo animo facias, quod fecisse vitiosum est, quia •cta cernuntur; animus non videtur. Id. ibid.Voluntarium est omne peccatum. Tolle excusationem: Nemo peccat invitus. Martin. Dunilens. de Morib. Nihil iuterest quo animo facias, quod fecisse vitiosum est, quia •cta cernuntur; animus non videtur. Id. ibid.
24. It is a robbing God of the Honour and Pleasure which he should have had in our Obedience; and the Glory which we should bring him before the world.
25. It is a contempt of the omnipresence and omniscience of God; when we will sin against him before his face, when he stands over us, and seeth all that we do.