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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 6 › Tit. 2. Directions to furnish the Mind with good Thoughts.
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.
§. 6. Direct. 6. Search the holy Scriptures, and acquaint your selves well with the Oracles of God, 1which are able to make you wise unto salvation, and you will find abundant matter for your thoughts. 2If you cannot find work enough for your minds, among all those heights and depths, those excellencies and difficulties, it is because you never understood them, or never set your hearts to search them. What mysterious Doctrines! how sublime and heavenly, are there for you to meditate on as long as you live? What a perfect Law! a system of precepts most spiritual and pure! What terrible threatenings against offenders, are there to be matter of your meditations? What wonderful histories of Love and Mercy! What holy examples! What a treasury of precious promises, on which lieth our hope of life eternal! What full and free expressions of grace! What a joyful act of pardon and oblivion to penitent believing sinners! In a word, the character of our inheritance, and the Law which we must be governed and judged by, is there before us for our daily Meditation! David that had much less of it than we, saith, O how I love thy Law! it is my meditation all the day! Psal. 119. 97. And God said to Joshua (1. 8.) This Book of the Law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate, therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein. And Moses commanded the Israelites, that these words should be in their hearts, and that they teach them diligently to their children, and talk of them when they sate in their houses, and when they walked by the way, and when they lay down, and when they rose up, and to write them on the posts of their houses, and on their gates, &c. that they might be sure to remember them, Deut. 6. 7.
§. 6. Direct. 6. Search the holy Scriptures, and acquaint your selves well with the Oracles of God, 1which are able to make you wise unto salvation, and you will find abundant matter for your thoughts. 2