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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§. 19. Direct. 9. Keep up a Delight in all your studies, and carry them not on in an unwilling weariness: ¹And, if it be not by notable error in matter or method, gratify your delight with such things as you are best pleased with, though they bring some smaller inconvenience: because else your weariness may bring much more.

§. 19. Direct. 9. Keep up a Delight in all your studies, and carry them not on in an unwilling weariness: ¹And, if it be not by notable error in matter or method, gratifie your delight with such things as you are best pleased with, though they bring some smaller inconvenience: because else your weariness may bring much more.

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§. 20. I know that a delight in sin and vanity is not to be gratified: and force must be used with a backward mind in cases of necessity and weight. But if it be but in the variety of subjects, and the choice of pleasing studies which are profitable, though simply some other might be fitter, something is to be yielded to delight. But especially the heart must be got to a delight in holy things: And then, time will be improved; the memory will be helped; much will be done; and you will persevere: And it will preserve the mind from temptations to needless recreations, and from the deadly plague of youthful lusts, when your daily labour is a greater pleasure to you.

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§. 21. Direct. 10. Get some judicious man to draw you up the titles of a threefold Common-place-Book:

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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