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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
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.
1. Scandal is a murdering of souls: It is a hindering of mens salvation, and an enticing or driving them towards Hell. And therefore in some respect worse than murder, as the soul is better than the body. 2. Sandal is a fighting against Jesus Christ, in his work of mans salvation. He came to seek and to save that which was lost; and the scandalizer seeketh to lose and destroy that which Christ would seek and save. 3. Scandal robbeth God of the hearts and service of his creatures: For it is a raising in them a distaste of his people, and word, and ways, and of himself; and a turning from him the hearts of those that should adhere unto him. 4, Scandal is a serving of the Devil, in his proper work of enmity to Christ, and perdition of souls, Scandalizers do his work in the world, and propagate his Cause and Kingdom.
1. Scandal is a murdering of souls: It is a hindering of mens salvation, and an enticing or driving them towards Hell. And therefore in some respect worse than murder, as the soul is better than the body. 2. Ssandal is a fighting against Jesus Christ, in his work of mans salvation. He came to seek and to save that which was lost; and the scandalizer seeketh to lose and destroy that which Christ would seek and save. 3. Scandal robbeth God of the hearts and service of his creatures: For it is a raising in them a distaste of his people, and word, and wayes, and of himself; and a turning from him the hearts of those that should adhere unto him. 4, Scandal is a serving of the Devil, in his proper work of enmity to Christ, and perdition of souls, Scandalizers do his work in the world, and propagate his Cause and Kingdom.
§. 23. V. The means of avoiding the guilt of Scandal are as followeth.
§. 23. Direct. 1. Mistake not (with the vulgar) the nature of scandal, as if it lay in that offending 1