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Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up to a confirmed state of grace…
Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up to a confirmed state of grace with motives opening the lamentable effects of their weaknesses and distempers / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1669
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THE CHARACTER OF 1 A Sound Confirmed Christian, 2 And of the Weak C… › The Characters.
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3. But the seeming Christian being a real worldling, doth serve God and Mammon; and Mammon ⟨p. 47⟩with the first and best: He had rather miss a Sermon, than a good bargain or commodity: he had rather dwell where he may thrive best, or have most ease and pleasure, than where he may find the greatest helps for heaven: he will be Religious, but it must be with an easy and a pleasant and merry Religion; which may not be too niggardly with his flesh, nor use it too strictly: unless when one days austerity may procure him an indulgence for his liberty all the week following. He will make his bargain with Christ so, as to be sure that he may not lose by him: And he will not believe that God is pleased with that which is much displeasing to his flesh. Rom. 8.5, 6, 7, 8, 13. Mat. 13.21, 22.
3. But the seeming Christian being a real worldling, doth serve God and Mammon; and Mammon ⟨p. 47⟩with the first and best: He had rather miss a Sermon, than a good bargain or commodity: he had rather dwell where he may thrive best, or have most ease and pleasure, than where he may find the greatest helps for heaven: he will be Religious, but it must be with an easie and a pleasant and merry Religion; which may not be too nigardly with his flesh, nor use it too strictly: unless when one days austerity may procure him an indulgence for his liberty all the week following. He will make his bargain with Christ so, as to be sure that he may not lose by him: And he will not believe that God is pleased with that which is much dipleasing to his flesh. Rom. 8.5, 6, 7, 8, 13. Mat. 13.21, 22.