Excerpt from A Christian Directory, Guiding Men to Their Eternal Salvation: Divided Into Three Books; The First Whereof, Appertaining to Resolution Is Contain'd in This Volume, Divided Into Two Parts, and Set Forth Now Again With Many Correction and Addictions He tells us, in the eighth chapter of the fecond part of this book, the caufe's of the diffoltite licentioufnefs of thpfe days were chiefly two. The firfi, divifion, fchifm and herefy in matters of faith, which by raifing many doubts, and by contentious quarrels, Wearing out man's wit, brings him at length to care for no religion, but rather to contemn all. The fecond, inordinate love Of the world, and thofe things which are of the world, which brings men even to hate God and rank themfelves with thofe whom the Apof'tle calls Enemies of the Ora/i of Cbrz'fl. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.