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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.
Part 1 › Chapter 5 › Tit. 3. Directions Practical for Redeeming Time.
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.
§. 43. Direct. 5. Do your best to settle your selves where there are the greatest helps and smallest hinderances 1to the Redeeming of your Time: And labour more to accommodate your habitation, condition and employments to the great ends of your life and time, than to your worldly honour, ease or wealth. Live where is best trading for the soul: You may get more by Gods ordinary blessing in one year, in a godly family, or in fruitful company, and under an able godly Minister, than in many years in a barren soil, among the ignorant, dead-hearted, or profane, where we must say as David, I held my peace even from good, while the wicked is before me—Psalm 39. 1, 2. And when we must do all the good we do through much opposition; and meet with great disadvantages and difficulties, which may quickly stop such dull and backward hearts as ours: If you will prefer your profit before your souls in the choice of your condition, and will plunge your selves into distracting busyness and company, your Time will run in a wrong unprofitable channel.
§. 43. Direct. 5. Do your best to settle your selves where there are the greatest helps and smallest hinderances 1to the Redeeming of your Time: And labour more to accommodate your habitation, condition and employments to the great ends of your life and time, than to your worldly honour, ease or wealth. Live where is best trading for the soul: You may get more by Gods ordinary blessing in one year, in a godly family, or in fruitful company, and under an able godly Minister, than in many years in a barren soil, among the ignorant, dead-hearted, or prophane, where we must say as David, I held my peace even from good, while the wicked is before me—Psalm 39. 1, 2. And when we must do all the good we do through much opposition; and meet with great disadvantages and difficulties, which may quickly stop such dull and backward hearts as ours: If you will prefer your profit before your souls in the choice of your condition, and will plunge your selves into distracting busyness and company, your Time will run in a wrong unprofitable chanel.
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