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A Christian Directory, Or, a Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience (v. 2)
A Christian Directory Or a Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience - v. 2 Author:Richard Baxter Volume: v. 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1825 Original Publisher: Printed for Richard Edwards Subjects: Christian life Computers / Programming / General Computers / Programming Languages / General Juvenile Fiction / Religious / Christian Religion / Christian Life / General Notes: This is a bla... more »ck and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PART VII. Directions against the Master Sin: Sensuality, Fleshpleasing, or Voluptuousness. I Shall be the shorter on this also, because I have spoken so much already in my " Treatise of Self-denial." Before we come to more particular Directions, it is needful that we discern the nature and evil of the sin which we speak sgainst. I shall therefore, 1. Tell you what is meant by ' flesh' here. And 2. What fleshpleasing it is that is unlawful, and what sensuality is. 3. Wherein the malignity of this sin consisteth. 4. I shall answer some objections. 6. I shall shew you the signs of it. 6. The counterfeits of the contrary. 7. And the false signs, which make some accused wrongfully, by themselves or others. I. Because you may find in writings between the Protestants and Papists, that it is become a controversy, whether by ' flesh,' in Scripture, (where this sin is mentioned) be meant the body itself, or the soul so far as it is unrege- nerate, I shall briefly first resolve this question. When we speak of the unregenerate part, we mean not that the soul hath two parts, whereof one is regenerate, and the other unregenerate : bnt as the purblind eye hath both light and darkness in the same subject, so is it with the soul which is regenerate but in part, that is, in an imperfect degree : and by the unregenerate part is meant, the whole soul, so far as it is unregenerat...« less