A Christian Directory

Name: A Christian Directory
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673

[35], 929, [5], 214 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. · 1.2M words · Wing B1219 · ESTC R21847

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Part 1 › Chapter 6 › Tit. 6. Directions for young Students, for the most profitable orde…: Tit. 6. Directions for young Students, for the most profitable ordering of their study…Part 1 › Chapter 6 › Tit. 6. Directions for young Students, for the most profitable orde…: Tit. 6. Directions for young Students, for the most profitable ordering of their studyi…

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§. 6. 5. You will want the true end of all right studies; and set up wrong ends: and therefore whatever be the matter of your studies, you are still out of your way, and know nothing rightly, because you know it not as a Means to the true end (But of this anon).

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§. 7. Direct. 2. When you have first laid this foundation, and have the true Principle and End of ¹all right Studies, be sure that you intend this End in all, (even the Everlasting Sight and Love of God, and the promoting his Glory, and pleasing his holy will): And that you never meddle with any studies separated from this end, but as a means thereto, and as animated thereby.

§. 7. Direct. 2. When you have first laid this foundation, and have the true Principle and End of ¹all right Studies, be sure that you intend this End in all, (even the Everlasting Sight and Love of God, and the promoting his Glory, and pleasing his holy will): And that you never meddle with any studies seperated from this end, but as a means thereto, and as animated thereby.

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§. 8. If every step in your journey is but loss of time and labour, which is not directed to your journeys end; and if all that you have to mind or do in the world, be only about your End or the Means; and all creatures and actions can have no other moral Goodness, than to be the means to God your ultimate end; then you may easily see, that when ever you leave out God as the End of any of your studies, your are but sinning, or doting: for in those Studies there can be no Moral Good,

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