A26892:1176
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.
§. 12. Direct. 5. But, 1. Why should God command it, and promise us his blessing if he meant not1 to perform it? 2. Remember Gods Infiniteness, and Omni-presence, and All-sufficiency: He is as verily with thee, as thou art there: he upholdeth thee: he showeth by his mercies, that he regardeth thee; and by his regarding lower things: And if he regard thee, he doth regard thy duties. It is all one with him to hear thy prayers, as if he had never another creature to regard and hear. Believe then and hope and wait upon him.
§. 12. Direct. 5. But, 1. Why should God command it, and promise us his blessing if he meant not1 to perform it? 2. Remember Gods Infiniteness, and Omni-presence, and All-sufficiency: He is as verily with thee, as thou art there: he upholdeth thee: he sheweth by his mercies, that he regardeth thee; and by his regarding lower things: And if he regard thee, he doth regard thy duties. It is all one with him to hear thy prayers, as if he had never another creature to regard and hear. Believe then and hope and wait upon him.
- 1Direct. 5.
§. 13. Tempt. 6. Sometime the Tempter will promise you more by holy duty, than God doth, and make 1you expect deliverance from every enemy, want and sickness, and speedier deliverance of soul, than ⟨p. 127⟩ever God promised; and all this is, to make you cast away all as vain, and think God faileth you, when you miss your expectations.
- 1Tempt. 6.