A26892:1699
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
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§. 9. Direct. 6. Consider what an admirable suitableness there is in the Doctrine of Christ to the relish 1of a serious heavenly mind: and how all that is spiritual and truly good in us, doth close with it and embrace it from a certain congruity of Natures, as the eye doth with the light, and the stomach with its proper food. Every good man in reading the Holy Scripture, feeleth something (even all that's good) within him, bear witness to it. And only our worser part is quarrelling with it, and rebels against it.
§. 9. Direct. 6. Consider what an admirable suitableness there is in the Doctrine of Christ to the relish 1of a serious heavenly mind: and how all that is spiritual and truly good in us, doth close with it and embrace it from a certain congruity of Natures, as the eye doth with the light, and the stomach with its proper food. Every good man in reading the Holy Scripture, feeleth something (even all that's good) within him, bear witness to it. And only our worser part is quarrelling with it, and rebells against it.
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§. 10. Direct. 7. Consider how all the first Churches were planted by the success of all those Miracles 1mentioned in the Scripture. And that the Apostles and thousands of others saw the Miracles of Christ; and the Churches saw the Miracles of the Apostles, and heard them speak in Languages unlearnt: and had the same extraordinary gifts communicated to themselves. And these being openly and frequently manifested, convinced unbelievers: and were openly urged by the Apostles to stop the mouths2 of opposers, and confirm believers; who would all have scorned his arguments, and the faith which they supported, if all these had been fictions, of which they themselves were said to be eye-witnesses and agents. So that the very existence of the Churches, was a testimony to the matter of