A26892:2449
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.
And is not that more credible which upon long experience is approved by many Nations and Ages, than that which is recommended to you but by one or few? These Students should have made themselves an Alphabet or Grammar, and not have taken the common ones on trust. It is easier to add to other mens inventions, than to begin and carry on all our selves. By their course of study, the world would never grow wiser; but every age and person be still beginning, and none proceed beyond their rudiments.
And is not that more credible which upon long experience is approved by many Nations and Ages, than that which is recommended to you but by one or few? These Students should have made themselves an Alphabet or Grammer, and not have taken the common ones on trust. It is easier to add to other mens inventions, than to begin and carry on all our selves. By their course of study, the world would never grow wiser; but every age and person be still beginning, and none proceed beyond their rudiments.
§. 33. Direct. 16. Be sure you make choice of meet Teachers and companions for your studies and your 1lives; That they be such as will assist you in the holy practice of what you know, as well as in your knowledge: And shun as a plague the familiarity, 1. Of sensual, idle, brutish persons; 2. And of carnal ambitious ones, who know no higher end than preferment and applause, 3. And of proud heretical contentious wits, whose wisdom and Religion is nothing but censuring, reproaching and vilifying them that are wiser and better than themselves.
§. 33. Direct. 16. Be sure you make choice of meet Teachers and companions for your studies and your 1lives; That they be such as will assist you in the holy practice of what you know, as well as in your knowledge: And shun as a plague the familiarity, 1. Of sensual, idle, brutish persons; 2. And of carnal ambitious ones, who know no higher end than preferment and applause, 3. And of proud hereticall contentious wits, whose wisdom and Religion is nothing but censuring, reproaching and vilifying them that are wiser and better than themselves.