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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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§. 25. Direct. 11. Turn your meditations often into ejaculatory prayers and addresses unto God: For 1that will keep you reverent, serious and awake, and make all the more powerful, because the more Divine. When you meditate on sin, turn sometimes to God by penitent lamentation, and say, Lord what a wretch and rebel was I to entertain such an enemy of thine into my heart? and for nothing to offend thee, and violate thy Laws! O pardon, O cleanse me, O strengthen me! Conquer and •ast out this odious enemy of thee and me. So when you are seeking to excite or exercise any grace, send up a fervent request to God to show his Love and power upon thy dead and sluggish heart, and to be the principal agent in a work which is so much his own. Prayer is a most holy duty, in which the soul hath so nearly to do with God, that if there be any holy seriousness in the heart, it will be thus excited: A dull and wandering mind will bear some reverence to God; and therefore inter•ss him in all.
§. 25. Direct. 11. Turn your meditations often into ejaculatory prayers and addresses unto God: For 1that will keep you reverent, serious and awake, and make all the more powerful, because the more Divine. When you meditate on sin, turn sometimes to God by penitent lamentation, and say, Lord what a wretch and rebell was I to entertain such an enemy of thine into my heart? and for nothing to offend thee, and violate thy Laws! O pardon, O cleanse me, O strengthen me! Conquer and •ast out this odious enemy of thee and me. So when you are seeking to excite or exercise any grace, send up a fervent request to God to shew his Love and power upon thy dead and sluggish heart, and to be the principal agent in a work which is so much his own. Prayer is a most holy duty, in which the soul hath so nearly to do with God, that if there be any holy seriousness in the heart, it will be thus excited: A dull and wandring mind will bear some reverence to God; and therefore inter•ss him in all.
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