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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.
§. 43. 12. He is exceeding desirous to make Parents themselves his Instruments for their children's sin and ruin: And alas how commonly doth he succeed! He knoweth that Parents have them under their hands, in the most ductile malleable age: and that they have a concurrence of almost all advantages: They have the purse, and the portion of their children in their power: They have the interest of Love, and Reverence, and estimation: They are still with them, and can be often in their solicitings: They have the rod and can compel them: Many thousands are in Hell, through the means of their own Parents; such cruel monsters will they be to the souls of any others, that are first so to their own. If the Devil can get the Parents to be cursers, swearers, gamesters, drunkards, worldlings, proud, deriders, or railers at a holy life, what a snare is here for the poor children!
§. 43. 12. He is exceeding desirous to make Parents themselves his Instuments for their childrens sin and ruine: And alas how commonly doth he succeed! He knoweth that Parents have them under their hands, in the most ductile malleable age: and that they have a concurrence of allmost all advantages: They have the purse, and the portion of their children in their power: They have the interest of Love, and Reverence, and estimation: They are still with them, and can be often in their sollicitings: They have the rod and can compel them: Many thousands are in Hell, through the means of their own Parents; such cruel monsters will they be to the souls of any others, that are first so to their own. If the Devil can get the Parents to be cursers, swearers, gamesters, drunkards, worldlings, proud, deriders, or railers at a holy life, what a snare is here for the poor children!
§. 44. V. In the Method of Satan, the next thing is to show you how he labours to keep off all the forces of Christ which should resist him and destroy his work, and to frustrate their endeavours, and fortify himself: And among many others, these means are notable.
§. 44. V. In the Method of Satan, the next thing is to shew you how he labours to keep off all the forces of Christ which should resist him and destroy his work, and to frustrate their endeavours, and fortifie himself: And among many others, these means are notable.