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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.
§. 55. Direct. 27. Hath he not showed you mercy? And is it not mercy which you vilify and re••se?1 Even Christ, and his Spirit, and holy communion with God? Or must God show you the mercy of Glory, without the mercy of Grace? Which is a contradiction: Strange, that the same men that will not be entreated to accept of mercy, nor let it save them, are yet saying, that God will be merciful and save them.
§. 55. Direct. 27. Hath he not shewed you mercy? And is it not mercy which you vilifie and re••se?1 Even Christ, and his Spirit, and holy communion with God? Or must God shew you the mercy of Glory, without the mercy of Grace? Which is a contradiction: Strange, that the same men that will not be intreated to accept of mercy, nor let it save them, are yet saying, that God will be merciful and save them.
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And for your poverty and suffering, is it not against your will? You cannot deny it: And will God save any man, for that which is against his will? You would have riches, and honour, and pleasure, and your good things in this life as well as others, if you could tell how: You love the world as well as others, if you could get more of it. And to be carnal and worldly for so poor a pittance, and to have the world when you suffer in it, doth make you more unexcusable than the rich. The Devils have suffered more than you; and so have many thousand souls in Hell: And yet they shall be saved never the more. If you are poor in the world, but rich in faith, and holiness, then you may well expect salvation, James 2. 5. But if your sufferings make you no more holy, they do but aggravate