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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.
29. It is a setting up the sordid creature, before the Creator, and dung before Heaven, as if it were more worthy of our Love and Choice, and fitter to be our Delight; and the Pleasure of sin were better for us than the Glory of Heaven
30. In all which it appeareth, that it is a practical Atheism, in its degree; A taking down God, or denying him to be God: and a practical Idolatry, setting up our selves and other creatures in his stead.
31. It is a contempt of all the means of Grace, which are all to bring us to obedience, and keep us or call us from our sins: Prayer, Sacraments &c.
32. It is a contempt of the Love and Labours of the Ministers of Christ; a disobeying them, grieving them, and frustrating their hopes and the labours of their lives.
33. It is a debasing of Reason, the superior faculty of the soul, and a setting up of the flesh or inferior faculties, like setting-dogs to Govern men, or the horse to rule the rider.