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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.
DIRECT. IX. Spend all your days in a skilful, vigilant, resolute and valiant War against the Flesh,1 the World and the Devil, as those that have covenanted to follow Christ the Captain of your Salvation.
DIRECT. IX. Spend all your dayes in a skilful, vigilant, resolute and valiant War against the Flesh,1 the World and the Devil, as those that have covenanted to follow Christ the Captain of your Salvation.
- 1Gr. Dir. 9. Our Warfare under Christ against the Tempter.
§. 1. The Flesh is the End of Temptation, for all is to please it, Rom. 13. 14. and therefore is1 the greatest enemy: The world is the Matter of Temptation: And the Devil is the first mover, or efficient of it; and this is the Trinity of enemies to Christ and us, which we renounce in Baptism, and must constantly resist. Of the world and flesh I shall speak Chap. 4. Here I shall open the Methods of the Devil. And first I shall prepare your understanding, by opening some presupposed truths.
§. 1. THe Flesh is the End of Temptation, for all is to please it, Rom. 13. 14. and therefore is