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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.
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.
§. 1. Direct. 1. LET it be your first and most serious study to make sure, that you are Regenerate, 1and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, and justified by faith in Christ, and Love God above all, as your reconciled Father, and so have right to the Heavenly inheritance.
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§. 2. For 1. You are nearest to your selves, and your everlasting happiness is your nearest and your highest interest: what will it profit you to know all the world, and to lose your own souls? To know as much as Devils, and be for ever miserable with Devils?
§. 3. 2. It is a most doleful employment to be all day at work in Satan's Chains! To sit studying God and the Holy Scriptures, while you are in the power of the Devil, and have hearts that are at enmity to the Holiness of that God and that Scripture which you are studying. It is a most preposterous and incongruous course of study, if you first study not your own deliverance. And if you knew your case, and saw your chains, your trembling would disturb your studies.
§. 3. 2. It is a most doleful employment to be all day at work in Satans Chains! To sit studying God and the Holy Scriptures, while you are in the power of the Devil, and have hearts that are at enmity to the Holiness of that God and that Scripture which you are studying. It is a most preposterous and incongruous course of study, if you first study not your own deliverance. And if you knew your case, and saw your chains, your trembling would disturb your studies.