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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 12 › §. 7. Directions for a quieting and comforting Trust in God.
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.
§. 7. Directions for a quieting and comforting Trust in God.
Direct. 1. Let thy soul retain the deepest impressions of the Almightiness, Wisdom Goodness, and faithfulness 1of God, and how certainly all persons, things and events are in his power, and how impotent all the world is to resist him, and that nothing can hurt thee, but by his consent. The principal means for a confirmed confidence in God, is to know him, and to know that all things that we can fear, are nothing, and can do nothing, but by his command, and motion, or permission. I am not afraid of a Bird or a Worm, because I know it is too weak for me: And if I rightly apprehend how much all creatures are too weak for God, and how sufficient God is to deliver me, his Trust would quiet me: Isa. 41. 10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee: be not dismayed, for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee—So v. 13, 14. & 43. 1. & 44. 2. 8. Psal. 9. 10. They that know thy name, will put their trust in thee: Isa. 51. 7, 8. Hearken unto me ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my Law: Fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings, for the moth shall eat them up like a garment, the Worm shall eat them like Wool.
Direct. 1. Let thy soul retain the deepest impressions of the Allmightiness, Wisdom Goodness, and faithfulness 1