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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.
§. 10. 6. If you Love not the Word as it is a light discovering your sin and duty, but only as it is a general truth, or as it reproveth others: If you love not the most searching preaching, and would not know how bad you are, and come not to the light, that your deeds may be manifest, it is a sign that you are not children of the light, but of the darkness, John 3. 19, 20, 21.
§. 10. 6. If you Love not the Word as it is a light discovering your sin and duty, but only as it is a general truth, or as it reproveth others: If you love not the most searching preaching, and would not know how bad you are, and come not to the light, that your deeds may be manifest, it is a sign that you are not children of the light, but of the darkness, Iohn 3. 19, 20, 21.
§. 11. 7. If the Laws of your Creator and Redeemer be not of greatest power and authority with you, and the will and word of God cannot do more with you, than the word or will of any man, and the threatenings and promises of God be not more prevalent with you, than the threats or promises of any men, it is a sign that you take not God for your God, but in heart are Atheists and ungodly men. Luke 19. 27. Matth. 7. 21, 22, 23, 26. Dan. 3. 16, 17, 18. & 6. 5, 10. Jer. 17. 5, 6. Luke 12. 4. Acts 5. 29.