A Christian Directory

Name: A Christian Directory
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673

[35], 929, [5], 214 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. · 1.2M words · Wing B1219 · ESTC R21847

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Part 1 › Chapter 1 › Part 1 › Direction 8: Direction 8. IF thou art willing indeed to be converted, do thy best to discover that y…

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§. 8. 4. If you have not been converted, regenerated and sanctified by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, making you spiritual, and causing you to mind the things of the Spirit above the things of the flesh. If this Spirit be not in you, and you walk not after it, but after the flesh, making provision for the flesh, to satisfy its desires, and preferring the pleasing of the flesh, before the pleasing of God, it is certain that you are in a state of death. See Matth. 18. 3. John 3. 3, 5, 6. Heb. 12. 14. Rom. 8. 1. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 . & 13. 13, 14. Luke 16. 19, 25 . & 12. 20, 21. Heb. 11. 25, 26. 2 Cor. 4. 16, 17, 18 . & 5. 7. Rom. 8. 17, 18.

§. 8. 4. If you have not been converted, regenerated and sanctified by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, making you spiritual, and causing you to mind the things of the Spirit above the things of the flesh. If this Spirit be not in you, and you walk not after it, but after the flesh, making provision for the flesh, to satisfie its desires, and preferring the pleasing of the flesh, before the pleasing of God, it is certain that you are in a state of death. See Matth. 18. 3. Iohn 3. 3, 5, 6. Heb. 12. 14

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A Christian Directory

Direction 9. When you have found your selves in a state of sin and death, Understand and Consider¹ what a state that is.

Direction 9. WHen you have found your selves in a state of sin and death, Understand and Consider¹ what a state that is.

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Reformers309

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Direction 9. When you have found your selves in a state of sin and death, Understand and Consider1 what a state that is.

Direction 9. WHen you have found your selves in a state of sin and death, Understand and Consider1 what a state that is.

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Direction 9. When you have found your selves in a state of sin and death, Understand and Consider¹ what a state that is.

Direction 9. WHen you have found your selves in a state of sin and death, Understand and Consider¹ what a state that is.