A26892:2478
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.
§. 61. Direct. 19. With all your Readings still join the reading of the Scriptures, and of the most 1holy and practical Divines; not fantastical Enthusiastic counterfeits; Paracelsian Divines; but those that lead you up by the solid doctrine of faith and Love to true Devotion, and Heavenly mindedness and conversation.
§. 61. Direct. 19. With all your Readings still joyn the reading of the Scriptures, and of the most 1holy and practical Divines; not fantastical Enthusiastick counterfeits; Paracelsian Divines; but those that lead you up by the solid doctrine of faith and Love to true Devotion, and Heavenly mindedness and conversation.
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§. 62. This must be your bread and drink; your daily and substantial food: without this you may soon be filled with air, that cannot nourish you, and prove in the end as sounding brass and tinkling Cymbals: These will breed strength, and peace, and joy, and help you in your Communion with God, and hopes of Heaven, and so promote the End of all your Studies! There is more life and sweetness in these, than in the things that are more remote from God and Heaven.
§. 63. Direct. 20. Lastly, Do all as dying men: promise not your selves long life, lest it tempt you 1to waste your time on things least necessary, and to loiter it away; or lest you lose the quickening benefit, which the sight of death and eternity would yield you, in all your studies.