A Christian Directory

Name: A Christian Directory
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673

[35], 929, [5], 214 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. · 1.2M words · Wing B1219 · ESTC R21847

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Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 9 › Tit. 4. Temptations to frustrate holy duties, and make them uneffec…: Tit. 4. Temptations to frustrate holy duties, and make them uneffectual.

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§. 8. Direct. 3. Know well your sin, and vileness, and desert, and the Justice and Holiness of God,¹ and then you will see that if Christ reconcile you not, and Justify you not by his blood, and do not sanctify and help you by his Spirit, and make you sons of God, and intercede not for you, there is no access to God, nor standing in his sight.

§. 8. Direct. 3. Know well your sin, and vileness, and desert, and the Justice and Holiness of God,¹ and then you will see that if Christ reconcile you not, and Justifie you not by his blood, and do not sanctifie and help you by his Spirit, and make you sons of God, and intercede not for you, there is no access to God, nor standing in his sight.

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§. 9. Tempt. 4. The Tempter would have you pray hypocritically, with the tongue only without the ¹heart: To put off God in a few customary words with seeming to pray (as they do the poor, Jam. 2. with a few empty words) either in a form of words not understood, or not considered, or not fel• and much regarded, or in more gross hypocrisy, praying for the Holiness which they will not have, and against the sin which they will not part with.

§. 9. Tempt. 4. The Tempter would have you pray hypocritically, with the tongue only without the ¹heart: To put off God in a few customary words with seeming to pray (as they do the poor,

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