Quote #40…Richard Baxter 1615-1691 (7)

Directions for profitable Reading the Holy Scriptures. Direct. 6

“Bring not a carnal mind, which savoreth only fleshly things and is enslaved to those sins which the Scripture doth condemn.
For the carnal mind is enmity against God, and neither is, nor can be subject to His Law (Rom 8:7-8). And the things of God are not discerned by the mere natural man, for they are foolishness to him, and they must be spiritually discerned (2Co 2:14); and enmity is an ill expositor. It will be quarrelling with all and making faults in the Word which findeth so many faults in you. It will hate that Word which cometh to deprive you of your most sweet and dearly beloved sin. Or, if you have such a carnal mind and enmity, believe it not, any more than a partial and wicked enemy should be believed against God Himself, Who better understandeth what He hath written, than any of His foolish enemies.“

(…to be continued)

(e) Rom. 8: 7, 8.
(f) 2 Cor. 2:14

From A Body of Practical Divinity, or A Christian Directory, Vol. 3

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