A26892:874
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. The nearness to us also is an Aggravation: It is not a distant evil, but in our bowels; in our very hearts: we are bound so strictly to love our selves, that it is a great aggravation, to do our selves so great a mischief.
8. The neerness to us also is an Aggravation: It is not a distant evil, but in our bowels; in our very hearts: we are bound so strictly to love our selves, that it is a great aggravation, to do our selves so great a mischief.
9. The constant inhesion of sin is a great aggravation: that it is ever with us, lying down and rising up, at home and abroad, we are never free from it.
9. The constant inhaesion of sin is a great aggravation: that it is ever with us, lying down and rising up, at home and abroad, we are never free from it.
10. That it should poison all our common mercies, and corrupt all our duties, is an aggravation. But we shall take up some of these anon.
10. That it should poyson all our common mercies, and corrupt all our duties, is an aggravation. But we shall take up some of these anon.