A26892:1243
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.
§. 22. Direct. 19. Though caeteris paribus the duties of the first table are to be preferred before 1those of the second, yet the Greater duties of the second table must be preferred before the lesser duties of the first. The Love of God is a greater duty than the Love of man: (and they must never be separated): But yet we must prefer the saving a mans life, or the quenching of a fire in the Town, before a Prayer, or Sacrament, or observation of a Sabbath: David eat the show bread, and the Disciples rubbed out the corn on the Sabbath day, because the preserving of Life was a greater duty than the observing of a Sabbath or a positive ceremonial law. And Christ bids the Pharisees, Go learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice: The blood of our brethren is an unacceptable means of pleasing God, and maintaining piety, or promoting mens several opinions in religion.
§. 22. Direct. 19. Though caeteris paribus the duties of the first table are to be preferred before 1those of the second, yet the Greater duties of the second table must be preferred before the lesser duties of the first. The Love of God is a greater duty than the Love of man: (and they must never be separated): But yet we must preferr the saving a mans life, or the quenching of a fire in the Town, before a Prayer, or Sacrament, or observation of a Sabbath: David eat the shew bread, and the Disciples rubbed out the corn on the Sabbath day, because the preserving of Life was a greater duty than the observing of a Sabbath or a positive ceremonial law. And Christ bids the Pharisees, Go learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice: The blood of our brethren is an unacceptable means of pleasing God, and mainteining piety, or promoting mens several opinions in religion.
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§. 23. Direct. 20. Choose that employment or calling, (so far as you have your choice) in which