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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.
7. They sin against all the heart-breaking or humbling sorrows, which they have tasted of at their conversion and since. They have known more of the evil of sin than others, in their sad experience of its sting.
8. They sin against more knowledge than other men: They have known more what sin is, and what Christ is, and what the will of God is, than others: and therefore deserve to be beaten with many stripes.
9. They have oftener confessed sin than others, and spoke odiously of it, as the vilest thing, and aggravated it to God and man.
9. They have oftner confessed sin than others, and spoke odiously of it, as the vilest thing, and aggravated it to God and man.
10. Their many Prayers against it, and all their labour in hearing, and reading, and Sacraments, and other means, do aggravate it.