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§. 1. AS in other cases, so in this, iniquity consisteth not simply in the hearts Neglect of [〈1 paragraph〉] God, but in the preferring of some competitor, and prevalence of some object which standeth up for an opposite interest. And so the obeying man before God and against him, and the valuing the favour and approbation of man before or against…
Richard Baxter — The Christian Directory, CHAP. IV. Subordinate Directions against those Grand heart-sins, which are directly… — PART IV. Directions against inordinate Man-pleasing: or that…, p. 218