A Christian Directory

Name: A Christian Directory
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673

[35], 929, [5], 214 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. · 1.2M words · Wing B1219 · ESTC R21847

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Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 12 › §. 7. Directions for a quieting and comforting Trust in God.

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§. 17. Direct. 10. Make use of the natural Love of quietness, and thy natural weariness of tormenting ¹c•res, and fea••, and sorrows, to move thee to cast thy self on God, and quiet thy soul in trusting on him. For God hath purposely made thy self and all things else insufficient, unsatisfactory and vexatious to the•, that thou mightst be driven to rest on him alone, when nothing else affords the• ••st. Cares, and fears, and unquietness of mind are such Thorns and Briars as nature cannot love •• be content with: And you may be sure that you can no way be delivered from them, but by trusting upon God. And will you choose care and torment, when so sure and cheap a way of case, is s•t before you? Who can endure to have fears torment him, and cares feed daily upon his heart, that may safely be delivered from it? An ulcerated, f•stered, pained mind, is a greater calamity, than any bodily distress alone. And if you be cast upon your own care, or committed to the trust of any creature, you can never rationally have peace. For your own ease and comfort then betake your selves to God, and cast all your care and burden on him, who careth for you, and knoweth perfectly what you want, 1 Pet. 5. 7. Matth 6. 32. Read often Matth. 6. from •. 2•. How sweet an •ase and quietness is it, to the mind that can confidently trust in God? How quiet is he from the storms of trouble, and the sickness of mind which others are distressed with? Is•. 26. 3, 4. Thou wil• keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in the; Trust in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength,

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A Christian Directory

DIRECT. XIII. Diligently labour that God and Holiness may be thy chief DELIGHT: and this¹ holy DELIGHT may be the ordinary temperament of thy Religion.

Directions for DELIGHTING our selves in God.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

DIRECT. XIII. Diligently labour that God and Holiness may be thy chief DELIGHT: and this1 holy DELIGHT may be the ordinary temperament of thy Religion.

Directions for DELIGHTING our selves in God.

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DIRECT. XIII. Diligently labour that God and Holiness may be thy chief DELIGHT: and this¹ holy DELIGHT may be the ordinary temperament of thy Religion.