A26892:9023
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.
Answ. This cannot be truly answered without distinguishing, 1. Of the Countries they go from. 2. Of the places they go to. 3. Of the quality of the persons that go. 4. Of the causes of their going.
Answ. This cannot be truly answered without distinguishing, 1. Of the Countreys they go from. 2. Of the places they go to. 3. Of the quality of the persons that go. 4. Of the causes of their going.
I. Some Countries that they go from may be as bad as those that they go to, or in a state of War, when it is better be absent, or in a time of persecution, or at least of greater temptation than they are like to have abroad. And some are contrarily as a Paradise in comparison of those they go to, for holiness and helps to Heaven, and for peace and opportunities of serviceableness to God and the public good.
I. Some Countrys that they go from may be as bad as those that they go to, or in a state of War, when it is better be absent, or in a time of persecution, or at least of greater temptation than they are like to have abroad. And some are contrarily as a Paradise in comparison of those they go to, for holiness and helps to Heaven, and for peace and opportunities of serviceableness to God and the publick good.
II. Some Countries which they may go to may have as good helps for their souls as at home, if not by those of the Religion of the Nation, yet by Christians that live among them; or by the company which goeth with them: or at least there may be no great temptations to change their Religion, or debauch them, either through the civility and moderation of those they live among, or through their sottish ignorance and viciousness, which will rather turn mens hearts against them. But some Countries have so strong temptations to corrupt mens understandings through the subtlety of seducers, and some have such allurements to debauch men, and some such cruelties to tempt them to deny the truth, that it is hard among them to retain ones innocency.