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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.
§. 13. Direct. 13. If thou be not a stranger to the spirit of grace, or a neglecter of his daily motions 1and persuasions and operations on thy heart, the attendance and improvement of them will keep thy thoughts 2from rusty idleness and a vagrant course. It is not a small matter to be daily entertaining so noble a guest, and daily observing the offers and motions of so great a benefactor; and daily receiving the gifts of so bountiful a Lord, and daily accepting his necessary helps; and daily obeying the saving precepts of so great and beneficent a God! If you know how insufficient you are without him, to will or to do, to perform or to think, or purpose any good, and that all your sufficiency is of him! If you knew that it is the great skill and diligence requisite in all that will Sail successfully to the desired3 Land of Rest, to know the Winds of the Spirits helps, and to set all your Sails to the right improvement of them, and to bestir you while such gales continue you would find greater work, than wandering for your thoughts.
§. 13. Direct. 13. If thou be not a stranger to the spirit of grace, or a neglecter of his daily motions 1and perswasions and operations on thy heart, the attendance and improvement of them will keep thy thoughts 2from rusty idleness and a vagrant course. It is not a small matter to be daily entertaining so noble a guest, and daily observing the offers and motions of so great a benefactor; and daily receiving the gifts of so bountiful a Lord, and daily accepting his necessary helps; and daily obeying the saving precepts of so great and beneficent a God! If you know how insufficient you are without him, to will or to do, to perform or to think, or purpose any good, and that all your sufficiency is of him! If you knew that it is the great skill and diligence requisite in all that will Sail successfully to the desired3 Land of Rest, to know the Winds of the Spirits helps, and to set all your Sails to the right improvement of them, and to bestir you while such gales continue you would find greater work, than wandering for your thoughts.