A26892:2343
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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§. 23. Direct. 9. Let the end and order of your meditations be first for the settling of your judgements, 1and next for the resolving and settling of your wills, and thirdly for the reforming and bettering of your lives; and but in the fourth place after all these for the raising of your holy passions or lively feeling; which must have but its proper room and place. But indeed where some of these are done already, they may be supposed, and we may proceed to that which is yet to do. As if you know what is sin and duty but do it not, your meditation must be, not to make you know what you knew not, but first to consider well of what you know, and set the powerful truth before you; and then labour hereby to bring your wills to a fixed Resolution of obedience: But if it be a Truth whose principal use is on the Will and Affections (as to draw up the heart to the Love of God, by the meditating on his attractive excellencies) then the most pains must there be taken. Of which see Chap. 3. Direct. 11.
§. 23. Direct. 9. Let the end and order of your meditations be first for the setling of your judgements, 1and next for the resalving and setling of your wills, and thirdly for the reforming and bettering of your lives; and but in the fourth place after all these for the raising of your holy passions or lively feeling; which must have but its proper room and place. But indeed where some of these are done already, they may be supposed, and we may proceed to that which is yet to do. As if you know what is sin and duty but do it not, your meditation must be, not to make you know what you knew not, but first to consider well of what you know, and set the powerful truth before you; and then labour hereby to bring your wills to a fixed Resolution of obedience: But if it be a Truth whose principal use is on the Will and Affections (as to draw up the heart to the Love of God, by the meditating on his attractive excellencies) then the most pains must there be taken. Of which see Chap. 3. Direct. 11.
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