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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. 4. O fear the holy, jealous, heart-searching God that hateth hypocrisy, and will be1 worshipped seriously in Spirit and Truth, and will be sanctified of all that draw near him, Lev. 10. 3. and saith they worship him in vain, that draw nigh him with the lips, when the heart is far from him: Matth. 15. 8, 9. See God by faith, as present with thee, and know thy self, and it will waken thee to seriousness. See Heb. 4. 13. Hos. 8. 12, 13.
§. 10. Direct. 4. O fear the holy, jealous, heart-searching God that hateth hypocrisie, and will be1 worshipped seriously in Spirit and Truth, and will be sanctified of all that draw near him, Lev. 10. 3. and saith they worship him in vain, that draw nigh him with the lips, when the heart is far from him: Matth. 15. 8, 9. See God by faith, as present with thee, and know thy self, and it will waken thee to seriousness. See Heb. 4. 13. Hos. 8. 12, 13.
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§. 11. Tempt. 5. He would destroy Faith and Hope, and make you doubt whether you shall get any