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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.
§. 30. Direct. 11. Look now but upon sickness, poverty, shame, despair, death, and rottenness in the 1grave, and it may a little help you to know what sin is. These are things within your sight or feeling: You need not saith to tell you of them. And by such effects you might have some little knowledge of the cause.
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§. 31. Direct. 12. Look but upon some eminent holy persons upon earth, and upon the mad, profane, 1malignant world; and the difference may tell you in part what sin is. Is there not an amiableness in a holy blameless person, that liveth in love to God and man, and in the joyful hopes of life eternal? Is not a beastly Drunkard, or Whoremonger, and a raging Swearer, and a malicious persecutor, a very deformed loathsome creature? Is not the mad, confused, ignorant, ungodly state of the world a very pitiful sight? What then is the sin that all this doth consist in?
§. 31. Direct. 12. Look but upon some eminent holy persons upon earth, and upon the mad, prophane, 1malignant world; and the difference may tell you in part what sin is. Is there not an amiableness in a holy blameless person, that liveth in love to God and man, and in the joyful hopes of life eternal? Is not a beastly Drunkard, or Whoremonger, and a raging Swearer, and a malicious persecutor, a very deformed loathsome creature? Is not the mad, confused, ignorant, ungodly state of the world a very pittiful sight? What then is the sin that all this doth consist in?
- 1Direct. 12.