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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.
16. The high Titles of love and praise which God doth give them in his Word, do aggravate their sin: That he should call them his treasure, his peculiar people, his jewels, and the apple of his eye, his sons and daughters, and a holy people, and Priests to God, and boast of them as a people more excellent than their neighbours; and after this they should sin against him.
17. They have had audience with God, the answer of prayers, and many a deliverance and mercy in this life, which others have not, which aggravate their sins, as being thus contemned, and as obliging them more to God than others.
18. They dishonour God more than any others by their sins: His honour lieth not so much upon the actions of the ungodly, as on those that are nearest to him.
18. They dishonour God more than any others by their sins: His honour lyeth not so much upon the actions of the ungodly, as on those that are nearest to him.
19. They harden the wicked more than such sins in other men would do: They cause them to Blaspheme, and reproach the godly for their sakes; and say [These are your Religious men! You see now what their strictness is.] And they hinder the conversion and salvation of others: They grieve the godly, and wrong the Church and Cause of God, much more than the sins of others do.