Baxter - BV649 B3 1670

Avoidall that is againfi Chriffianity. '211 way ofenmity to Holinefs, though not fo grofs as fcorning and perfecuting it. That which I Paid before -of Truth , is applyable to this of Duty. It is one of the molt important things in the world, for the refolving of a thoufand cafes of confcience, and the direc`ing ofa Chriftian life, toknowwhich Duties are the greater and which are the lefer, and fo which is to be preferred in competition ; For that which is a duty at ano- ther time , is a fin, when it is done inflead of a greater ! as Chris} hath refolved in the cafe of the Sabbath. If Good mutt be loved as Good,then the Greaten Good mutt be mot} loved and fought. Sacrifice inftead of mercy is a fin ± Our gift mutt be left at the altar, while we go to be reconciled to our brother. Math. 5. Never hear- ken to thofe men who would fet up their con- troverted duties,or any pofitives and leffer things,' againRxhe duties of nature-it felf, or the great fubfiantial parrs ofgodlinefse DIRECT.,

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