A26892:865
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.
40. Sin is not only a preferring the Body before the Soul, but it is also an Unmercifulness, or Cruelty against our selves, both soul and body, and so is contrary to the true use of the indelible principle of self-love: For it is a wounding and abusing the Soul, and defiling the Body in this life, and a casting both on the wrath of God; and into the flames of Hell hereafter, or a dangerous venturing them into the way of endless damnation and despair: and a contempt of those insufferable torments. All these parts of malignity and poison are intrinsical to sin and found in the very Nature of it.
40. Sin is not only a preferring the Body before the Soul, but it is also an Unmercifulness, or Cruelty against our selves, both soul and body, and so is contrary to the true use of the indeleble principle of self-love: For it is a wounding and abusing the Soul, and defiling the Body in this life, and a casting both on the wrath of God; and into the flames of Hell hereafter, or a dangerous venturing them into the way of endless damnation and despair: and a contempt of those insufferable torments. All these parts of malignity and poyson are intrinsecal to sin and found in the very Nature of it.
§. 17. The common Aggravations of sin being written of by many, and easily gathered from what is said of the nature of it, I shall briefly name only a few.
1. The Infinite perfection of God in all those blessed Attributes and Relations, which sin is against, is the Greatest Aggravation of sin.