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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.
§. 9. Direct. 3. See therefore that you choose all your studies according to their tendency to God 1your end, and use them still▪ under the notion of means, and that you estimate your knowledge by this End, and judge your selves to know no more indeed, than you know of God and for God: And so let practical▪ Divinity be the soul of all your Studies.
- 1Direct. 3.
Therefore, when Life is too short for the Studies of all things which we desire to know, make sure of the chief things, and prefer those studies which make most to your End; spend not your time on things unprofitable to this end: And spend not your first and chiefest time on things unnecessary to it:1 For the near connection to God the end, is it that ennobleth the matter of your studies. All true knowledge leads to God; but not all alike: the nearest to him is the best.
Therefore, when Life is too short for the Studies of all things which we desire to know, make sure of the chief things, and prefer those studies which make most to your End; spend not your time on things unprofitable to this end: And spend not your first and chiefest time on things unnecessary to it:1 For the near connexion to God the end, is it that enobleth the matter of your studies. All true knowledge leads to God; but not all alike: the nearest to him is the best.
- 1No• a••em nec subto cimus philosohari, nec mediocrem a primo tempore aetatis in co studio operam curamque consumpsimus & cum minime videbamur tum maxime philosophebamur. Cicero […]r. pag. 5.