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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
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§. 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.
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§. 10. Direct. 10. Above all take heed of sinful Interests and designs; for these are the garrison of Satan, 1and must be battered down before any holy cogitations can take place. He that is set upon a design of rising, or of growing rich, hath something else to do, than to entertain those sober thoughts of things eternal, which are destructive of his carnal design.
§. 10. Direct. 10. Above all take heed of sinful Interests and designs; for these are the garison of Satan, 1