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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
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§. 24. Its a poor and pitiful kind of knowledge, to know many loose parcels, and broken members of truth; without knowing the whole, or the place, and relation which they have to the rest. To know letters and not syllables, or syllables and not words, or words and not sentences, or sentences and not the scope of the discourse, are all but an unprofitable knowledge. He knoweth no Science rightly that hath not anatomized it, and carrieth not a true Scheme or Method of it in his mind. But among the many that are extant, to commend any one to you which I most esteem, or take to be without error, is more than I dare do.
§. 24. Its a poor and pitiful kind of knowledge, to know many loose parcels, and broken members of truth; without knowing the whole, or the place, and relation which they have to the rest. To know letters and not syllables, or syllables and not words, or words and not sentences, or sentences and not the scope of the discourse, are all but an unprofitable knowledge. He knoweth no Science rightly that hath not anatomized it, and carryeth not a true Scheme or Method of it in his mind. But among the many that are extant, to commend any one to you which I most esteem, or take to be without error, is more than I dare do.
§. 25. Direct. 12. Still keep the primitive fundamental verities in your mind, and see every other 1truth which you learn as springing out of them, and receiving their life and nourishment from them: And 2still keep in your minds a clear distinction between the Truths of several Degrees, both of Necessity, and Certainty, always reducing the less Necessary to the more Necessary, and the less certain to the more certain, and not contrarily.
§. 25. Direct. 12. Still keep the primitive fundamental verities in your mind, and see every other 1