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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.
§. 8. Direct. 7. Keep a tender conscience, which will do its office, and not suffer you to sin without 1remorse. A feared senseless Conscience will permit you to lye and steal and deceive, and will make no great matter of it, till God awaken it by his grace or vengeance. Hence it is that servants can deceive their masters, or take that which is not allowed them, and buyers and sellers over-reach one another, because they have not tender Consciences to reprove them.
§. 8. Direct. 7. Keep a tender conscience, which will do its office, and not suffer you to sin without 1remorse. A feared sensless Conscience will permit you to lye and steal and deceive, and will make no great matter of it, till God awaken it by his grace or vengeance. Hence it is that servants can deceive their masters, or take that which is not allowed them, and buyers and sellers over-reach one another, because they have not tender Consciences to reprove them.
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§. 9. Direct. 8. Remember always that God is present, and none of your secrets can be hid from him. 1What the better are you to deceive your neighbour, or your master, and to hide it from their knowledge, as long as your Maker and Judge seeth all? When it is him that you most wrong, and with him that you have most to do, and he that will be the most terrible avenger? What blinded Atheists are you, who dare do that in the presence of the most righteous God, which you durst not do if men beheld you.
§. 9. Direct. 8. Remember alwayes that God is present, and none of your secrets can be hid from him. 1