A26892:8494
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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§. 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.
§. 12. 3. Alluring promises of some gain or pleasure that shall come by sin, is another scandal which doth cause the fall of many. The course that Satan tried with Christ [All this will I give thee], was but the same which he found most successful with sinners in the world! This is a bait which sinners will themselves hunt after, if it be not offered them. Judas will go to the Pharisees with a [What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?] Peter saith of the scandalous Heretics of his time, They allure through the lust of the flesh, through much wantonness those that were clean escaped from them who live in error: While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption,