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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.
§▪ 10. Temp. 5. When this faileth, the Tempter would persuade them, that Godliness is nothing but 1a matter of mere Opinion or belief: to believe all the Articles of the faith, and to be no Papist nor Heretic, but of the true Religion, and to be confident of Gods mercy through Christ: For he that believeth shall be saved. Mar. 16. 16.
§▪ 10. Temp. 5. When this faileth, the Tempter would perswade them, that Godliness is nothing but 1a matter of meer Opinion or belief: to believe all the Articles of the faith, and to be no Papist nor Heretick, but of the true Religion, and to be confident of Gods mercy through Christ: For he that believeth shall be saved. Mar. 16. 16.
- 1Tempt. 5.
§. 11. Direct. 5. To this you must answer, that it will not save a man that his Religion is true, 1unless •• be true to it! Read James 2. against such a dead faith. Saving faith is the hearty entertainment of Christ as our Lord and Saviour, and the delivering up the soul to him to be sanctified and ruled, as well as pardoned. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. He that knoweth his Masters will and d•th it not, shall be beaten with many stripes,