A26892:936
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.
§. 3. There is a Natural enmity to the Devil himself put into all the woman's natural seed: But the moral enmity against his sinful temptations and works, is put only into the spiritual seed by the Holy Ghost (except what remnants are in the light of Nature.) I will be brief of all this and the next, having spoken of them more largely in my Treatise against Infidelity, Part. 3. page 190. §. 13, &c.
§. 3. There is a Natural enmity to the Devil himself put into all the womans natural seed: But the moral enmity against his sinful temptations and works, is put only into the spiritual seed by the Holy Ghost (except what remnants are in the light of Nature.) I will be brief of all this and the next, having spoken of them more largely in my Treatise against Infidelity, Part. 3. page 190. §. 13, &c.
§. 4. The Devils names do tell us what he is. In the Old Testament he is called, 1. The Serpent, Gen. 3. 2. The Hebrew word translated [Devils] in Levit. 17. 7. and Isa. 13. 21. signifieth1 [ ••i•y] as Satyrs are described, and sometime [He-goats:] Because in such shapes he oft appeareth. 3. He is called [Satan,] Zech. 3. 1. 4. [An evil Spirit] 1 Sam. 18. 10. 5. [A lying Spirit] 1 Kings 22. 22. For he is a liar, and the Father of it, John 8. 44. 6. His off-spring is called