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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.
§. 6. Tempt. 3. But, saith the Tempter, if supernatural grace be necessary, yet it may be born in you: 1Infants have no sin; Christ saith, Of such is the Kingdom of God: Abraham is your Father, yea, God; John 8. 39. 41. You are born of Christian Parents.
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§. 7. Direct. 3. See the full proof of Original Sin in all Infants, in my Treatise of the Divine Life, 1Part. 1. Chap. 11. & 12. Grace may indeed be put betimes into Nature, but comes not by nature. Except you be born again, you cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, John 3. 3. 5. If any man be in Christ, 2he is a new creature: old things are past away: behold all things are become new, 2 Cor. 5. 17. But how vain is it for him to boast that he was born holy, who finds himself at the present unholy. Show that you have a holy heavenly heart and life, and then you are happy when ever it was wrought.
§. 7. Direct. 3. See the full proof of Original Sin in all Infants, in my Treatise of the Divine Life, 1Part. 1. Chap. 11. & 12. Grace may indeed be put betimes into Nature, but comes not by nature. Except you be born again, you cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, John 3. 3. 5. If any man be in Christ,