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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.
Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 10 › Directions for faithful serving Christ, and doing Good.
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.
Directions for faithful serving Christ, and doing Good.
§. 4. Direct. 1. Be sure that you have that Holiness, Justice and Charity within, which are the necessary 1Principles of good works. For a good Tree will being forth good fruit, and an evil Tree evil fruit: Make the Tree good, and the fruit good: A good man out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth evil things: As out of the Heart proceed evil works, Matth. 15. 19, 20. So out of the heart must good works come: Matth. 7. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. Can the dead do the works of the living? Or the unholy do the works of holiness? or the unrighteous do the works of justice? or the uncharitable do the works of charity? Will he do good to Christ in his members on earth, who hateth them? Or will he not rather imprison them, than visit them in prison, and rather strip them of all they have, than feed and clothe them? Or if a man should do that which materially is good, from pride, or other sinful principles, God doth not accept it, but taketh all sacrifice but as Carrion, that is offered to him without the Heart.
§. 4. Direct. 1. Be sure that you have that Holiness, Iustice and Charity within, which are the necessary 1Principles of good works. For a good Tree will being forth good fruit, and an evil Tree evil fruit: Make the Tree good, and the fruit good: A good man out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth evil things: As out of the Heart proceed evil works,