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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.
§. 13. Direct. 6. Remember that Trusting God doth as it were oblige him, and distrusting him doth 1greatly disoblige him: especially when any thing else is trusted before him. If any man trust you upon any encouragement given him by you, you will take your selves obliged to be trusty to him; and not to fail any honest trust. But if he trust you not, or trust another, you will turn him off to those that he hath trusted. God may say to thee, Let them help thee whom thou hast trusted: Thou trustedst not in me; and therefore I fail not thy trust when I forsake thee.
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§. 14. Direct. 7. Remember that thou must trust in God or in nothing. For nothing is more sure,1 nor more frequently experienced, than that all things else are utterly insufficient to be our help. Shall we choose a broken reed, that we know before hand will both deceive and pierce us? Woe to the man that hath no surer a foundation for his Trust than Creatures? The greatest of them are unable: and the Best of them are untrusty and deceitful. How sad is thy case, if God turn thee off to these for help in the hour of thy extremity? Then wilt thou perceive, that it is better to trust in the Lord, than to put any confidence in Princes: Psal. 118. 8, 9. The righteous shall see, and fear, and laugh at him: Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness: Psal. 52. 6, 7. But they that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, that cannot be removed, but abideth for ever, Psal. 125. 1. Creatures will certainly deceive thy trust; but so will not God.