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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.
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.
Delight yourselves in the particular discoveries of his common mercies to the world, and his special mercies to his saints; and his personal mercies to your selves, from your birth to this moment; both upon your souls, and bodies, and friends, and names, and estates, and affairs in all relations. 11. Delight your selves in the Privilege you enjoy of speaking to him, and of him, and hearing from him, and adoring and worshipping him, and singing, and publishing his Praise, and in the communion which your souls may have with him through Christ, on his Days, and at all times, in his sacraments and in all your lives. And say as Solomon, ⟨p. 163⟩1 King. 8. 27. And will God indeed dwell on earth? will he dwell and walk with sinful men? When the1 Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him: Psalm 40. 16. Let those that seek him Rejoice and be glad in him: and 122. 1. Let us be glad to go up to the house of the Lord, and join with his holy Assemblies in his worship: Psalm 46. 4. The streams of his Grace make glad the City of God, the holy Tabernacles of the most high: God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: 12. Delight your selves above all in the forethoughts and hope of the Glory which you shall see and enjoy for ever. I do but name all these for your memory, because they are before spoken of in the Directions for Love.
Delight yourselves in the particular discoveries of his common mercies to the world, and his special mercies to his saints; and his personal mercies to your selves, from your birth to this moment; both upon your souls, and bodies, and friends, and names, and estates, and affairs in all relations. 11. Delight your selves in the Priviledge you enjoy of speaking to him, and of him, and hearing from him, and adoring and worshipping him, and singing, and publishing his Praise, and in the communion which your souls may have with him through Christ, on his Days, and at all times, in his sacraments and in all your lives. And say as Solomon, ⟨p. 163⟩