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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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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.
§. 30. Abundance of contentious Volumes between the Dominicans, and Jesuits, and many others, are stuffed with bold enquiries, wranglings, or determinations of unsearchable mysteries, utterly unknown to those that voluminously debate them, and never revealed in the Word or Works of God. Keep off with reverence from concealed mysteries: Talk not as boldly of the Divine influx, and the priority, posteriority, dependence or reason of Gods Decrees, as if you were talking of your common affairs. Come with great reverence when you are called of God to search into those high and holy truths, which he hath revealed. But pretend not to know that which is not to be known. For you will but discover your ignorance and arrogance, and know never the more, when you have doted about Questions never so long.
§. 30. Abundance of contentious Volumes between the Dominicans, and Jesuites, and many others, are stuft with bold enquiries, wranglings, or determinations of unsearchable mysteries, utterly unknown to those that voluminously debate them, and never revealed in the Word or Works of God. Keep off with reverence from concealed mysteries: Talk not as boldly of the Divine influx, and the priority, posteriority, dependance or reason of Gods Decrees, as if you were talking of your common affairs. Come with great reverence when you are called of God to search into those high and holy truths, which he hath revealed. But pretend not to know that which is not to be known. For you will but discover your ignorance and arrogance, and know never the more, when you have doted about Questions never so long.
§. 31. Direct. 15. Avoid both extremes, of them that study no more, but to know what others have 1written and held before them; and of them that little regard the discoveries of others: Learn all of your Teachers and Authors that they can teach you; but make all your own, and see things in their proper evidence, and improve their discoveries by the utmost of your diligence; abhorring a proud desire of singularity, or to seem wiser than you are.