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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.
§. 11. Direct. 4. Remember the Grounds of confidence and quietness which God hath given you in 1his Son, his Covenant, his Spirit, his Sacraments, and your own and others manifold experiences. I name them all together, because I would have you set them all together before your eyes. Will he not give you all things with him, that hath given you his Son? Rom. 8 32. Is not Christ a sufficient undertaker and encourager? Is not his Covenant, Promise and Oath sufficient security for you? Wherein God willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an Oath, that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lye, we might have a strong consolation—Heb. 6. 17, 18. And is not the Heavenly seal and earnest of his Spirit, sufficient to confirm us? 2 Cor. 1. 22. & 5. 5. Ephes. 1. 13, 14. & 4. 30. And have you tried God so oft, and yet cannot you trust him? Our frequent experiences, though the least of all these helps of Trust, are very powerful, because they are near us, and almost satisfy sense it self? When all our bones say, Lord who is like unto thee, who deliverest the poor, &c. Psal. 35. 10.
§. 11. Direct. 4. Remember the Grounds of confidence and quietness which God hath given you in 1his Son, his Covenant, his Spirit, his Sacraments, and your own and others manifold experiences. I name them all together, because I would have you set them all together before your eyes. Will he not give you all things with him, that hath given you his Son? Rom. 8 32. Is not Christ a sufficient undertaker and encourager? Is not his Covenant, Promise and Oath sufficient security for you? Wherein God willing more abundantly to shew to the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an Oath, that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lye, we might have a strong consolation—