A26892:8773
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.
§. 2. Direct. 2. Yet do not content your self with these habits, but be sure to call them up to act, 1when ever you have any bargaining with others; and let a faithful Conscience be to you as a Crier to proclaim Gods Laws, and say to you, Now remember Love and Self-denial, and Do as you would be done by. If Alexander Severus so highly valued this saying, Quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne feceris; as to make it his Motto, and write and engrave it on his doors and buildings (having learned it of some Christians or Jews, saith Lampridius); What a crime and shame is it for Christs own profest Disciples neither to learn or love it. Put home the question when you have any bargaining with others, How would I be dealt with my self, if my case were the same with his?
§. 2. Direct. 2. Yet do not content your self with these habits, but be sure to call them up to act, 1when ever you have any bargaining with others; and let a faithful Conscience be to you as a Cryer to proclaim Gods Laws, and say to you, Now remember Love and Self-denyal, and Do as you would be done by. If Alexander Severus so highly valued this saying, Quod tibi fieri non vis, alteri ne feceris; as to make it his Motto, and write and engrave it on his doors and buildings (having learned it of some Christians or Jews, saith Lampridius); What a crime and shame is it for Christs own profest Disciples neither to learn or love it. Put home the question when you have any bargaining with others, How would I be dealt with my self, if my case were the same with his?
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§. 3. Direct. 3. When the Tempter draweth you to think only of your own commodity and gain, remember 1how much more you will lose by sin, than your gain can any way amount to. If Acan, Gehezi, Ahab, Judas, &c. had foreseen the end, and the greatness of their loss, it would have curbed their covetous desires. Believe Gods Word from the bottom of your heart, that you shall lose things eternal if you sinfully get things temporal, and then you will not make haste to such a bargain, to win the world and lose your souls.