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 13: DIRECT. XIII. Diligently labour that God and Holiness may be thy chief DELIGHT: and thy…Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 13: DIRECT. XIII. Diligently labour that God and Holiness may be thy chief DELIGHT: and thi…

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§. 12. Direct. 10. It is only a life of faith, that will be a life of holy heavenly Delight: Exercise your ¹selves therefore in believing contemplations of the things unseen. It must not be now and then a glance of the eye of the soul towards God, or a seldom salutation which you would give a stranger; but a walking with him, and frequent addresses of the soul unto him, which must help you to the Delights which Believers find in their communion with him.

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§. 13. Direct. 11. Especially let faith go frequently to Heaven for renewed matter of delight, and ¹frequently think what God will be to you there for ever, and with what full everlasting delight he will satiate your souls. As Heaven is the place of our full delight, so the foresight and foretaste of it is the highest delight, which on earth is to be attained. And a soul that is strange to the foresight of Heaven, will be as strange to the true Delights of faith.

§. 13. Direct. 11. Especially let faith go frequently to Heaven for renewed matter of delight, and ¹frequently think what God will be to you there for ever, and with what full everlasting delight he will satiate your souls. As Heaven is the place of our full delight, so the foresight and foretast of it is the highest delight, which on earth is to be attained. And a soul that is strange to the foresight of Heaven, will be as strange to the true Delights of faith.

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A Christian Directory

DIRECT. XIV. Let Thankfulness to God thy Creator, Redeemer and Regenerator, be the very¹ temperament of thy soul, and faithfully expressed by thy Tongue and Life.

DIRECT. XIV. Let Thankfulness to God thy Creator, Redeemer and Regenerater, be the very¹ temperament of thy soul, and faithfully expressed by thy Tongue and Life.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

DIRECT. XIV. Let Thankfulness to God thy Creator, Redeemer and Regenerator, be the very1 temperament of thy soul, and faithfully expressed by thy Tongue and Life.

DIRECT. XIV. Let Thankfulness to God thy Creator, Redeemer and Regenerater, be the very1 temperament of thy soul, and faithfully expressed by thy Tongue and Life.

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DIRECT. XIV. Let Thankfulness to God thy Creator, Redeemer and Regenerator, be the very¹ temperament of thy soul, and faithfully expressed by thy Tongue and Life.

DIRECT. XIV. Let Thankfulness to God thy Creator, Redeemer and Regenerater, be the very¹ temperament of thy soul, and faithfully expressed by thy Tongue and Life.