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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.
§. 11. Direct. 8. Remember that this was the design of the Devil in tempting religious people to sin, 1not only to destroy them, but to undo you and others by their falls. If he can make you think the worse of Religion, he hath his design and will: He hath killed many at a blow. Ye•, perhaps the sinner may Repent and be forgiven, when you that are driven from Repentance and Godliness by the scandal may be damned. And will you so far gratify the Devil, in the wilful destruction of your selves? Sin is contagious: And this is your catching of the infection, if it prevail to drive you further from God? And thus this Plague devoureth multitudes.
§. 11. Direct. 8. Remember that this was the design of the Devil in tempting religious people to sin, 1not only to destroy them, but to undo you and others by their falls. If he can make you think the worse of Religion, he hath his design and will: He hath killed many at a blow. Ye•, perhaps the sinner may Repent and be forgiven, when you that are driven from Repentance and Godliness by the scandal may be damned. And will you so far gratifie the Devil, in the wilful destruction of your selves? Sin is contagious: And this is your catching of the infection, if it prevail to drive you further from God? And thus this Plague devoureth multitudes.
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§. 12. Direct. 9. He that will think ill of Godliness for mens sins, shall never want occasion of such 1offence, nor such temptations to fly from God. If you are so foolish or malignant as to pick quarrels with God and godliness for mens faults (which nothing but God and Godliness can reform) you