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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.
§. 9. Direct. 6. Keep an account of your expenses; at least, of all your most considerable talents; and 1bring your selves daily or frequently to a reckoning, what good you have done, or endeavoured to do. Every day is given you for some good work. Keep therefore accounts of every day: (I mean, in your conscience; not in papers.) Every mercy must be used to some good: Call your selves therefore to account for every mercy, what you have done with it for your Masters use. And think not hours and minutes, and little mercies may be past without coming into the account: The servant that thinks he may do what his list with Shillings and Pence, and that he is only to lay out greater sums for his Masters use, and lesser for his own, will prove unfaithful, and come short in his accounts: Less sums than pounds must be in our reckonings.
§. 9. Direct. 6. Keep an account of your expences; at least, of all your most considerable talents; and 1bring your selves daily or frequently to a reckoning, what good you have done, or endeavoured to do. Every day is given you for some good work. Keep therefore accounts of every day: (I mean, in your conscience; not in papers.) Every mercy must be used to some good: Call your selves therefore to account for every mercy, what you have done with it for your Masters vse. And think not hours and minutes, and little mercies may be past without coming into the account: The servant that thinks he may do what his list with Shillings and Pence, and that he is only to lay out greater summs for his Masters use, and lesser for his own, will prove unfaithful, and come short in his accounts: Less summs than pounds must be in our reckonings.
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§. 10. Direct. 7. Take special heed that the common Thief, your carnal-self either Personal or in your 1