A26892:1810
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.
§. 26. Direct. 21. Be very diligent in the examining of your hearts and all your actions by the Word 1of God, and call your selves often to a strict account. Deceit and guilt will not endure strict examination. The Word of God is quick and powerful, discovering the thoughts and imaginations of the heart. There is no Hypocrite but might be delivered from his own deceits, if by the assistance of an able Guide, he would faithfully go on in the work of self-trying, without partiality o• sloth.
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§. 27. Direct. 22. Live continually as one that is going to be judged, at the bar of God, where all 1Hypocrisy will be opened and shamed, and Hypocrites condemned by the All-knowing God. One thought of our appearing before the Lord, and of the day of his impartial judgement, one would think should make men walk as in the light, and teach them to understand, that the Sun is not eclipsed as oft as they wink, nor is it night because they draw the Curtains: What a shame will it be to have all your dissimulation laid open before all the world? Luke 12. 1, 2, 3. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which is Hypocrisy: For there is nothing covered, which shall not be revealed, neither •id, that shall not be known: Therefore what ever ye have spoken in darkness, shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets, shall be proclaimed on the house tops.
§. 27. Direct. 22. Live continually as one that is going to be judged, at the barr of God, where all 1