A26892:1168
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.
§. 4. Direct. 1. First see that the Heart be honest, and God, and Heaven, and Holiness most desired, else all1 that you do will want right ends.
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§. 5. Tempt. 2. When ignorance or error make men take God for what he is not, thinking blasphemously 1of him, as if he were like them, and liked their sins, or were no lover of Holiness; they frustrate all their worship of him.
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§. 6. Direct. 2. Study God in his Son, in his Word, in his Saints, in his Works: Know him as described1 before, Chap. 3. Direct. 4. And see that your wicked corrupted hearts, or wilful forgetting him, blind not your understandings.
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