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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.
§. 1. He can never expect to attain the end, that will not be persuaded to use the means. Of your selves you can do nothing. God giveth his help by the means which he hath appointed and fitted to your help. Of the use of these, I shall treat more fully afterwards: I am now only to name them to thee, that thou mayest know what it is that thou hast to do.
§. 1. He can never expect to attain the end, that will not be perswaded to use the means. Of your selves you can do nothing. God giveth his help by the means which he hath appointed and fitted to your help. Of the use of these, I shall treat more fully afterwards: I am now only to name them to thee, that thou maist know what it is that thou hast to do.
1. That you must hear, or read the Word of God, and other good Books which expound it and1 apply it, I showed you before. The new born Christian doth incline to this, as the new born child doth to the breast, 1 Pet. 2. 1, 2. Laying aside all malice, and guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as new born babes that desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. Psal. 1. 2, 3. The blessed mans delight is in the Law of the Lord, and therein doth he meditate day and night.
1. That you must hear, or read the Word of God, and other good Books which expound it and1 apply it, I shewed you before. The new born Christian doth encline to this, as the new born child doth to the breast, 1 Pet. 2. 1, 2. Laying aside all malice, and guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as new born babes that desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.