A26892:8669
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.
§. 9. Direct. 9. And labour so to help him to a true understanding of the nature of Religion, that 1he may perceive that it is not only a necessary, but a pleasant thing. All love delights: It is the slander and misrepresentation of godliness by the Devil, the World and the Flesh, which maketh mistaken sinners shun it: The way to convert them, and win their hearts to it, is to make them know how good and pleasant it is: and to confute those calumnies.
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§. 10. Direct. 10. Yet always insert the remembrance of death, and judgement, and of Hell. For1 the drowsy mind hath need to be awakened; and Love worketh best, when fear subserveth it. Its hard to procure a serious audience and consideration of things, from hardened hearts, if the sight of death and Hell do not help to make them serious. Danger which must be escaped, must be known and thought on. These things put weight and power into your speech.
§. 10. Direct. 10. Yet alwayes insert the remembrance of death, and judgement, and of Hell. For1 the drowsie mind hath need to be awakened; and Love worketh best, when fear subserveth it. Its hard to procure a serious audience and consideration of things, from hardened hearts, if the sight of death and Hell do not help to make them serious. Danger which must be escaped, must be known and thought on. These things put weight and power into your speech.
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