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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.
§. 13. Direct. 6. Digest all that you know, and turn it into holy Habits, and expect that success 1first on your selves, which if you were to Preach you would expect in others. Remembering that knowing 2is not the end of knowing; but it is as eating to the body, where health, and strength and service is the end.
§. 13. Direct. 6. Digest all that you know, and turn it into holy Habits, and expect that success 1first on your selves, which if you were to Preach you would expect in others. Remembring that knowing 2is not the end of knowing; but it is as eating to the body, where health, and strength and service is the end.
- 1Direct. 6.
- 2Primum contemplativae sapientiae rudimentum est, meditati condisce•e, & loquitari dediscere: Paul Scalig. Thes. p. 730.
§. 14. Every Truth of God is his candle which he sets up for you to work by; It is as food that is for Life and action. You lose all the knowledge which ends in knowing. To fill your head and common-place-book is not all that you have to do. But to fortify and quicken and inflame your hearts. Good habits are the best provision for a Preacher: The habits of the Mind are better than the best library. But if the Habits of Heavenly love and life in the heart do not concur, the Heart and life of a Preacher and a Scholar is wanting still, for all your knowledge. Study Pauls words,