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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.
§. 15. Direct. 7. Yea, see that you excel the unlearned as much in Holiness as you do in knowledge: 1unless you will persuade them that your knowledge is a useless worthless thing; and unless you would be judged as unprofitable servants.
§. 15. Direct. 7. Yea, see that you excell the unlearned as much in Holiness as you do in knowledge: 1unless you will perswade them that your knowledge is a useless worthless thing; and unless you would be judged as unprofitable servants.
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§. 16. Every degree of Knowledge is for a further degree of Holiness: Ten Talents must be improved to ten more. They that know, and do not, are beaten with many stripes. The Devils Scholars look on the godly that are unlearned, with hatred and disdain, and preach to their discouragement and disgrace, and strive to set and keep true Godliness in the stocks: But Christs Ministers love Holiness where ever they see it, and are ashamed to think that the unlearned should be more holy and heavenly than they; and strive to go beyond them as much in the use and ends of knowledge, as in knowledge it self: And with Austin lament, that while the unlearned take Heaven by violence, the learned are thrust out into Hell, as thinking it is their part to know and teach, and other mens to practise.
§. 16. Every degree of Knowledge is for a further degree of Holiness: Ten Talents must be improved to ten more. They that know, and do not, are beaten with many stripes. The Devils Schoars look on the godly that are unlearned, with hatred and disdain, and preach to their discouragement and disgrace, and strive to set and keep true Godliness in the stocks: But Christs Ministers love Holiness where ever they see it, and are ashamed to think that the unlearned should be more holy and heavenly than they; and strive to go beyond them as much in the use and ends of knowledge, as in knowledge it self: And with Austin lament, that while the unlearned take Heaven by violence, the learned are thrust out into Hell, as thinking it is their part to know and teach, and other mens to practise.