A26892:1605
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.
1. The sinner hath an Intellectual notice, that there is a God (for an Atheist is not a believer) and so that this God is the First and Last, the best of beings, the Maker, Owner, Ruler and Benefactor of the world, the just end of all created being and actions, and to be Loved and Pleased above our selves: (For all this is but to believe that there is a God.)
2. He is convinced that his own chief Felicity lieth, not in temporary or carnal pleasure, but in the Perfect Knowing, Loving and Pleasing this God above himself: (For if he know not what true salvation and felicity is, he cannot desire or accept it.)
2. He is convinced that his own chief Felicity lyeth, not in temporary or carnal pleasure, but in the Perfect Knowing, Loving and Pleasing this God above himself: (For if he know not what true salvation and felicity is, he cannot desire or accept it.)
3. He knoweth that hitherto he hath been without this Love, and this felicity.
4. He desireth to be Happy, and to escape everlasting misery.