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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
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.
§. 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.
§. 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 quickning benefit, which the sight of death and eternity would yield you, in all your studies.
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§. 64. The nearer you apprehend your selves to death and Heaven, the greater help you have to be mortified and Heavenly: This will make you serious, and keep up right intentions, and keep out wrong ones, and powerfully help you against temptations, that when you have studied to save others you may not be cast-aways; nor be cheated by the Devil with the shell, and leaves, and flowers, while you go without the saving fruit.