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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.
And if you meet with any of those distracted sinners that would deride you from Christ and your1 salvation, and say, this is the way to make men mad, or, this is more ado than needs; I will not stand here to manifest their brutishness and wickedness, having largely done it already, in my Book called, A Saint or a Brute, and Now or Never, and in the third Part of the Saints Rest: But only I desire thee as a full defensative against all the pratings of the Enemies of a holy Heavenly life, to take good notice but of these three things.
And if you meet with any of those distracted sinners that would deride you from Christ and your1 salvation, and say, this is the way to make men mad, or, this is more ado than needs; I will not stand here to manifest their bruitishness and wickedness, having largely done it already, in my Book called, A Saint or a Bruite, and Now or Never, and in the third Part of the Saints Rest: But only I desire thee as a full defensative against all the pratings of the Enemies of a holy Heavenly life, to take good notice but of these three things.
- 1Every one is not a Thief, that a Dog barks at; nor an hypocrite•, that hypocrites call so.
§. 5. 1. Mark well the language of the holy Scriptures, and see whether it speak not contrary to these men: And bethink thee, whether God or they be wiser, and whether God or they must be thy Judge?
§. 5. 1. Mark well the language of the holy Scriptures, and see whether it speak not contrary to these men: And bethink thee, whether God or they be wiser, and whether God or they must be thy Iudge?