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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. 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. Psal. 1. 2, 3. The blessed mans delight is in the Law of the Lord, and therein doth he meditate day and night.
- 1How Paenitents of old, did rise even from a particular sin, judge by these words of Pacianus Pa•• •••• ad Poe••t. Bibl. Pat. To. 3. p. 74. [You must not only do that which may be seen of the Priest, and praised by the Bishop—to weep before the Church, to lament a lost or sinful life in a sordid garment, to fast, pray, to role on the earth, if any invite you to the Bath (or such pleasures) to refuse to go: If any bid you to a Feast, to say, These things are for the happy; I have sinned against God, and am in danger to perish for ever? What should I do at Banquets, who have wronged the Lord: Besides these you must take the poor by the hand, you must beseech the Widow, lye at the feet of the Presbyters, beg of the Church to forgive you, and pray for you: you must try all means rather than perish.