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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.
And it's like that the absence of Books, will appear to the Readers loss in the materials of the Treatise: But I shall have this advantage by it that ⟨image 3⟩he will not accuse me as a plagiary; And it may be some little advantage to him, that he hath no transcript of any mans Books, which he had before, but the product of some experience, with a naked unbiased perception of the Matter or Things themselves.
And it's like that the absence of Books, will appear to the Readers loss in the materials of the Treatise: But I shall have this advantage by it that ⟨image 3⟩he will not accuse me as a plagiary; And it may be some little advantage to him, that he hath no transcript of any mans Books, which he had before, but the product of some experience, with a naked unbyassed perception of the Matter or Things themselves.
7. Note also that the third and fourth parts are very much defective of what they should contain, about the Power and Government of Gods officers in Church and State; of which no Readers will expect a reason but strangers, whose expectations I may not satisfy. But as I must profess that I hope nothing here hath proceeded, from Disloyalty, or disrespect to Authority, Government, Unity, Concord, Peace or Order, or from any opposition to Faith, Piety, Love, or Justice; so if unknown to me, there be any thing found here, that is contrary or injurious to any one of these, I do hereby renounce it, and desire it may be taken as non-scriptum.
7. Note also that the third and fourth parts are very much defective of what they should contain, about the Power and Government of Gods officers in Church and State; of which no Readers will expect a reason but strangers, whose expectations I may not satisfie. But as I must profess that I hope nothing here hath proceeded, from Disloyalty, or disrespect to Authority, Government, Unity, Concord, Peace or Order, or from any opposition to Faith, Piety, Love, or Iustice; so if unknown to me, there be any thing found here, that is contrary or injurious to any one of these, I do hereby renounce it, and desire it may be taken as non-scriptum.