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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.
when other men are reputed Philosophers or Wise, for some unsatisfactory knowledge of these transitory things, do you desire to know nothing but a crucified and glorified Christ: study him, and take him (objectively) for your Wisdom: When other men have confidence in the flesh, and in their show of Wisdom in Will-worship and Humility, after the Commandments and Doctrines of men, (Col. 2. 20, 21, 22, 23.) and would establish their own righteousness, do you rejoice in Christ your Righteousness: And set continually before your eyes, his Doctrine and Example as your Rule: Look still to Jesus the Author and finisher of you faith, who contemned all the Glory of the world, and trampled upon its Vanity, and subjected himself to a life of suffering, and made himself of no reputation, but for the joy that was set before him, endured the Cross, despising the shame, and underwent the contradiction of sinners against himself. Live so, that you may truly say as Paul, Gal. 2. 20. I am crucified with Christ: Nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
when other men are reputed Philosophers or Wise, for some unsatisfactory knowledge of these transitory things, do you desire to know nothing but a crucified and glorified Christ: study him, and take him (objectively) for your Wisdom: When other men have confidence in the flesh, and in their shew of Wisdom in Will-worship and Humility, after the Commandments and Doctrines of men, (Col. 2. 20, 21, 22, 23.) and would establish their own righteousness, do you rejoice in Christ your Righteousness: And set continually before your eyes, his Doctrine and Example as your Rule: Look still to Iesus the Author and finisher of you faith, who contemned all the Glory of the world, and trampled upon its Vanity, and subjected himself to a life of suffering, and made himself of no reputation, but for the joy that was set before him, endured the Cross, despising the shame, and underwent the contradiction of sinners against himself. Live so, that you may truly say as Paul, Gal. 2. 20. I am crucified with Christ: Nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.