A26892:2327
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.
§. 8. Direct. 8. Urgent and oppressing busyness doth almost necessitate the thoughts: Therefore avoid 1as much as you can such urgencies when you would be free for meditation. Let your thoughts have as little diverting matter as may be, at those times when you would have them entire and free for God.
- 1Direct. 8.
§. 9. Direct. 9. Crowds and ill company are no friends to meditation: Choose therefore the quietness 1of solitude when you would do much in this. As it is ill studying in a crowd, and unseasonable before a multitude to be at secret prayer (except some short ejaculations); so is it as unmeet a season for holy meditation. The mind that is fixedly employed with God, or about things spiritual, had need of all possible freedom and peace, to retire into it self, and abstract it self from alien things, and seriously intend its greater work.
§. 9. Direct. 9. Crowds and ill company are no friends to meditation: Choose therefore the quietness 1of solitude when you would do much in this. As it is ill studying in a croud, and unseasonable before a multitude to be at secret prayer (except some short ejaculations); so is it as unmeet a season for holy meditation. The mind that is fixedly employed with God, or about things spiritual, had need of all possible freedom and peace, to retire into it self, and abstract it self from alien things, and seriously intend its greater work.
- 1Direct. 9.