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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. II. The Matter and Grounds of his Temptations are these. 1. The Devil first worketh upon the outward sense, and so upon the sensitive appetite: He showeth the Cup to the Drunkards eye; and the bait of filthy lust to the fornicator; and the riches and pomp of the world to the covetous and proud: The Glutton tasteth the sweetness of the dish which he loveth: Stage-plays, and tempting sports, and proud attire, and sumptuous buildings, and all such sensual things are the baits by which the Devil angleth for souls. Thus Eve first saw the fruit, and then tasted, and then did eat: Thus Noah, and Lot, and David sinned. Thus Achan saith, Josh. 7. 21. I saw (the Garments, Silver and Gold) I coveted them, and I took them. The sense is the door of sin.
§. 16. II. The Matter and Grounds of his Temptations are these. 1. The Devil first worketh upon the outward sense, and so upon the sensitive appetite: He sheweth the Cup to the Drunkards eye; and the bait of filthy lust to the fornicator; and the riches and pomp of the world to the covetous and proud: The Glutton tasteth the sweetness of the dish which he loveth: Stage-playes, and tempting sports, and proud attire, and sumptuous buildings, and all such sensual things are the baits by which the Devil angleth for souls. Thus Eve first saw the fruit, and then tasted, and then did eat: Thus Noah, and Lot, and David sinned. Thus Achan saith, Josh. 7. 21. I saw (the Garments, Silver and Gold) I coveted them, and I took them. The sense is the door of sin.
§. 17. 2. The Tempter next worketh on the Fantasy or Imagination; and prints upon it the loveliest image of his bait that possibly he can, and engageth the sinner to Think on it, and to roll it over and over in his mind, even as God commandeth us to Meditate on his Precepts.
§. 17. 2. The Tempter next worketh on the Fantasie or Imagination; and prints upon it the loveliest image of his bait that possibly he can, and engageth the sinner to Think on it, and to rowl it over and over in his mind, even as God commandeth us to Meditate on his Precepts.