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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.
§. 33. Direct. 12. Remember that God hath promised to provide for you, and that you shall want 1nothing that is good for you, if you will live above these worldly things, and seek first his Kingdom, and the righteousness thereof. And cannot you trust his promise? If you truly believe that he is God,2 and that he is true, and that his particular providence extendeth to the very numbering of your hairs, you will sure trust him rather than trust to your own forecast and industry. Do you think his provision is not better for you than your own? All your own care cannot keep you alive an hour, nor cannot prosper any of your labours, if you provoke him to blast them. And if you are not content with his provisions, nor submit your selves to the disposals of his love and wisdom, you disoblige God, and provoke him to leave you to the fruits of your own care and diligence: And then you will find that it had been your wiser way to have trusted God.
§. 33. Direct. 12. Remember that God hath promised to provide for you, and that you shall want 1nothing that is good for you, if you will live above these worldly things, and seek first his Kingdom, and the righteousness thereof. And cannot you trust his promise? If you truly believe that he is God,2 and that he is true, and that his particular providence extendeth to the very numbring of your hairs, you will sure trust him rather than trust to your own forecast and industry. Do you think his provision is not better for you than your own? All your own care cannot keep you alive an hour, nor cannot prosper any of your labours, if you provoke him to blast them. And if you are not content with his provisions, nor submit your selves to the disposals of his love and wisdom, you disoblige God, and provoke him to leave you to the fruits of your own care and diligence: And then you will find that it had been your wiser way to have trusted God.
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