A26892:8493
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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§. 9. 4. Scandal also as to the Means of it, is of several sorts. 1. By Doctrine; 2. By persuasion; 3. By alluring Promises; 4. By Threats; 5. By Violence; 6. By Gifts; 7. By Example; 8. By Omission of duties, and by silence: By all these ways you may scandalize.
§. 9. 4. Scandal also as to the Means of it, is of several sorts. 1. By Doctrine; 2. By perswasion; 3. By alluring Promises; 4. By Threats; 5. By Violence; 6. By Gifts; 7. By Example; 8. By Omission of duties, and by silence: By all these wayes you may scandalize.
§. 10. 1. False Doctrine is directly scandalous: for it seduceth the judgement, which then mis-guideth the will, which then misruleth the rest of the Faculties! False Doctrine if it be in weighty practical points, is the pernicious plague of souls and Nations.
§. 10. 1. False Doctrine is directly scandalous: for it seduceth the judgement, which then mis-guideth the will, which then misruleth the rest of the Faculties! False Doctrine if it be in weighty practical points, is the pernitious plague of souls and Nations.
§. 11. 2. Also the solicitations of seducers and of tempting people, are scandalous, and tend to the ruin of souls: when people have no reason to draw a man to sin, they weary him out by tedious importunity! And many a one yields to the earnestness, or importunity, or tediousness of a persuasion, who could easily resist it, if it came only with pretence of reason.
§. 11. 2. Also the sollicitations of seducers and of tempting people, are scandalous, and tend to the ruine of souls: when people have no reason to draw a man to sin, they weary him out by tedious importunity! And many a one yields to the earnestness, or importunity, or tediousness of a perswasion, who could easily resist it, if it came only with pretence of reason.