A26892:975
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.
§. 38. 7. He maketh the Rich his Instruments that having the wealth of the world, are able to reward and hire evil doers: and are able to oppress those that will not please them. Landlords and Rich men can do the Devil more service than many of the poor: They are the Judas's that bear the bag. As the Ox will follow him that carieth the hay, and the Horse will follow him that carrieth the provender, and the Dog will follow him that feedeth him, and the Crow will be where the carrion is; so carnal persons will follow and obey him that bears the purse.
§. 38. 7. He maketh the Rich his Instruments that having the wealth of the world, are able to reward and hire evil doers: and are able to oppress those that will not please them. Landlords and Rich men can do the Devil more service than many of the poor: They are the Iudas's that bear the bag. As the Ox will follow him that carieth the hay, and the Horse will follow him that carrieth the provender, and the Dog will follow him that feedeth him, and the Crow will be where the carrion is; so carnal persons will follow and obey him that bears the purse.
§. 39. 8. The Devil if he can will make those his Instruments whom he seeth we most Esteem and Reverence: Persons whom we think most wise and fit to be our Counsellors: we will take that from these, which we would suspect from others.
§. 40. 9. He will get our Relations and those that have our Hearts most to be his Instruments: A Husband, or a Wife, or a Delilah, can do more than any others: and so can a bosom friend, whom we dearly love: when all their Interest in our affections is made over for the Devils service, it ⟨p. 109⟩may do much. Therefore we see that Husbands, and Wives if they love entirely, do usually close in the same Religion, opinion or way, though when they were first married they differed from each other.