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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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Direct. 9. See that there be no predominant selfishness or worldly interest unmortified at the heart. Study duty, and do it faithfully, and trust God with Life, Estate, and Events: and shift not for your selves by sinful means.
Direct. 9. See that there be no predominant selfishness or worldly interest unmortified at the heart. Study duty, and do it faithfully, and trust God with Life, Estate, and Events: and shift not for your selves by sinfull means.
Direct. 10. Maintain your authority over your sense and fleshly appetites: Captivate not Reason to the Brutish part; especially under pretence of liberty. Use your bodies as may strengthen them, and best fit them for the work of God: Let them have so much delight in things allowed as conduceth to this; but take heed of making the delights of flesh and sense your end, or allowing your selves in an unprofitable pleasing of your enemy; or of corrupting your minds, and relishing too much sweetness in the things of the flesh, and losing your relish of Spiritual things. Set not the bait too near you: Keep the Gun-powder from the fire. He that believeth that if ever he be damned, it will be for Pleasing his flesh before God; and if ever he be saved, he must be first and ⟨p. 23⟩principally saved from the inordinate Pleasures of the flesh, will not be so forward as brutish Infidels are, to seek out for delights, and plead for all that pleaseth them as harmless.
Direct. 10. Maintain your authority over your sense and fleshly appetites: Captivate not Reason to the Brutish part; especially under pretence of liberty. Use your bodies as may strengthen them, and best fit them for the work of God: Let them have so much delight in things allowed as conduceth to this; but take heed of making the delights of flesh and sense your end, or allowing your selves in an unprofitable pleasing of your enemy; or of corrupting your minds, and rellishing too much sweetness in the things of the flesh, and losing your rellish of Spiritual things. Set not the bait too near you: Keep the Gun-powder from the fire. He that believeth that if ever he be damned, it will be for Pleasing his flesh before God; and if ever he be saved, he must be first and