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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.
§. 19. Direct. 16. Where God hath prescribed you some particular Good work or way of service, you 1must prefer that before another which is greater in its self. This is explicatory or limiting of Dir. 8. The reason is because God knoweth best what is pleasing to him, and Obedience is better than Sacrifice. You must not neglect the necessary maintenance of Wife and Children, under pretence of doing a work of piety or greater good: because God hath prescribed you this order of your duty, that you begin at home (though not to stop there) Another Minister may have a greater or more needy flock; but yet you must first do good in your own, and not step without a call into his charge. If God have called you to serve him in a low and mean employment, he will better accept you in that work, than if you undertook the work of another mans place, to do him greater service.
§. 19. Direct. 16. Where God hath prescribed you some particular Good work or way of service, you 1must prefer that before another which is greater in its self. This is explicatory or limiting of Dir. 8. The reason is because God knoweth best what is pleasing to him, and Obedience is better than Sacrafice. You must not neglect the necessary maintenance of Wife and Children, under pretense of doing a work of piety or greater good: because God hath prescribed you this order of your duty, that you begin at home (though not to stop there) Another Minister may have a greater or more needy flock; but yet you must first do good in your own, and not step without a call into his charge. If God have called you to serve him in a low and mean imployment, he will better accept you in that work, than if you undertook the work of another mans place, to do him greater service.
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§. 20. Direct. 17. Lose not your resolutions or opportunities of doing good by unnecessary delays.