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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 10. Direct. 5. Here learn well the duties and dangers of your own Relations; and remember that it1 is much of your work to be faithful and excellent in your Relations. And mind not so much what other men owe to you, as what you owe to God and them. Let Masters, and Ministers, and Magistrates first study and carefully practise their own duties, and yet they must next see that their Inferiors do their duties, because that is their office: But they must be more desirous that God be first served, and more careful to procure obedience to him, than that they be honoured, or obeyed themselves. Children, Servants and Subjects must be taken up in the well doing of their proper work: remembering that their good or hurt lieth far more upon that, than upon their superiors dealings with them, or usage of them. As it is your own Body, and not your superiors which your soul doth animate, nourish and use, and which you have the continual sense and charge of; so it is your own duty, and not your superiors, which you have to do, and to answer for, and therefore most to mind and talk of.
§. 10. Direct. 5. Here learn well the duties and dangers of your own Relations; and remember that it1 is much of your work to be faithful and excellent in your Relations. And mind not so much what other men owe to you, as what you owe to God and them. Let Masters, and Ministers, and Magistrates first study and carefully practise their own duties, and yet they must next see that their Inferiours do their duties, because that is their office: But they must be more desirous that God be first served, and more careful to procure obedience to him, than that they be honoured, or obeyed themselves. Children, Servants and Subjects must be taken up in the well doing of their proper work: remembring that their good or hurt lyeth far more upon that, than upon their superiours dealings with them, or usage of them. As it is your own Body, and not your superiours which your soul doth animate, nourish and use, and which you have the continual sense and charge of; so it is your own duty, and not your superiours, which you have to do, and to answer for, and therefore most to mind and talk of.
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