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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. He is most beholden to God, that is most exercised in good works: The more we do, the more we receive from him: And our very doing it self is our Receiving: For it is he that giveth us both to will and to do by his operation in us, Phil. 2. 13. Even he without whom we can do nothing: John 15. 5.
11. The obligation to good works, that is, to works of Piety, Justice and Charity, is essential to us as servants of the Lord: We are practical Atheists, if we do not works of piety to God: we are rebels against God, and enemies to our selves, and unmeet for humane society, if we do not the works which are good for our selves, and for others, if we have ability and opportunity▪ This is our fruit which God expecteth, and if we bear it not, he will hew us down, and cast us into the fire.
11. The obligation to good works, that is, to works of Piety, Justice and Charity, is essential to us as servants of the Lord: We are practical Atheists, if we do not works of piety to God: we are rebells against God, and enemies to our selves, and unmeet for humane society, if we do not the works which are good for our selves, and for others, if we have ability and opportunity▪ This is our fruit which God expecteth, and if we bear it not, he will hew us down, and cast us into the fire.