A26892:1747
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.
Part 1 › Chapter 4 › Part 2: Directions against Hardness of Heart.
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.
§. 2. Direct. 1. Remember the Majesty and presence of that Most Holy God, with whom we have to d• ▪ 1Heb. 4. 13. Nothing will more affect and awe the heart, and over-rule it in the matters of Religion, than the true knowledge of God. We will not talk sleepily or contemptuously to a King: How much less should we be stupid or contemptuous before the God of Heaven. It is that God whom Angels worship, that sustaineth the world, that keepeth us in life, that is always present, observing all that we think, or say, or do, whose commands are upon us, and with whom we have to do in all things, and shall we be hardened against his fear? Who hath hardened himself against him and hath prospered? Job 9. 4.
§. 2. Direct. 1. Remember the Majesty and presence of that Most Holy God, with whom we have to d• ▪ 1Heb. 4. 13. Nothing will more affect and awe the heart, and over-rule it in the matters of Religion, than the true knowledge of God. We will not talk sleepily or contemptuously to a King: How much less should we be stupid or contemptuous before the God of Heaven. It is that God whom Angels worship, that sustaineth the world, that keepeth us in life, that is alwayes present, observing all that we think, or say, or do, whose commands are upon us, and with whom we have to do in all things, and shall we be hardned against his fear? Who hath hardned himself against him and hath prospered? Job 9. 4.
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