A26892:8774
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.
§. 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.
§. 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, Iudas, &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.
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§. 4. Direct. 4. Understand your neighbours case aright, and meditate on his wants and interest. You1 think what you want your self; but you think not whether his wants with whom you deal, may not be as great as yours: Consider what his commodity costeth him: or what the toil of the workmans labour is: What house rent he hath to pay, and what a family to maintain? and whether all this can be well done, upon the rates that you desire to trade with him. And do not believe every common report, of his riches, or of the price of his commodity; For same in such cases is frequently false.
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