A26892:1825
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.
§. 3. Direct. 1. Understand well wherein the nature of this sin consisteth, that you may not run into the 1contrary extreme, but may know which way to bend your opposition. I shall therefore first show you, how far we may and must please men, and how far not.
§. 3. Direct. 1. Understand well wherein the nature of this sin consisteth, that you may not run into the 1contrary extream, but may know which way to bend your opposition. I shall therefore first shew you, how far we may and must please men, and how far not.
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§. 4. 1. Our Parents, Rulers and Superiors must be honoured, obeyed and pleased in all things which they require of us in the several places of authority which God hath given them over us: And this must be not merely as to man, but as to the Officers of God, from whom, and for whom, (and not against him) they have all their power. Rom. 13. Exod. 20. 12. Titus 3. 1. 1 Pet. 2. 13. & 2. 2, 10.
§. 4. 1. Our Parents, Rulers and Superiours must be honoured, obeyed and pleased in all things which they require of us in the several places of authority which God hath given them over us: And this must be not meerly as to man, but as to the Officers of God, from whom, and for whom, (and not against him) they have all their power.