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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.
§. 27. Direct. 5. Set not your selves upon any worldly ambitious design: For the Love of the Riches 1and Honours of the World, will not only engage you in a course of sinning, but also make it seem your interest, to make others as bad and miserable as your selves, and to drive them on to serve your interests by their sin.
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§. 28. Direct. 6. Take •heed lest a fleshly inclination do draw you to the Love of fleshly pleasures! 1and that your minds be not set upon the pleasing of your fancies sense or appetite; either in meat, or drink or clothes or dwellings, or recreations, or any such delights: If once the Love of these grow strong, it will conquer your reason, and seduce it into Libertinism, and make you think that a voluptuous flesh-pleasing life, (so it be not by gross disgraced sins) is but the lawful use of the Creature, which Christ hath purchased not only for our necessity, but for our delight; and that the contrary opinion is but the too much rigour of such as understand not their Christian liberty.
§. 28. Direct. 6. Take •heed lest a fleshly inclination do draw you to the Love of fleshly pleasures! 1and that your minds be not set upon the pleasing of your fansies sense or appetite; either in meat, or drink or cloaths or dwellings, or recreations, or any such delights: If once the Love of these grow strong, it will conquer your reason, and seduce it into Libertinism, and make you think that a voluptuous flesh-pleasing life, (so it be not by gross disgraced sins) is but the lawful use of the Creature, which Christ hath purchased not only for our necessity, but for our delight; and that the contrary opinion is but the too much rigour of such as understand not their Christian liberty.