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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.
9. And so it will make you troublers of the Church, contending unpeaceably for that which you understand not.
10. And it tendeth to hypocrisy, making you give thanks for that which you never had, as puffed up with a knowledge that is not enough to keep you humble, and wanting the Charity which would edify your selves and others, 1 Co•. 8. 1.
10. And it tendeth to hypocrisie, making you give thanks for that which you never had, as puffed up with a knowledge that is not enough to keep you humble, and wanting the Charity which would edifie your selves and others, 1 Co•. 8. 1.
11. And it tendeth to delude you in point of assurance of salvation, taking your own over-valuing self-esteem for true assurance; which is not ordinarily to be expected, till grace be come to greater strength.
12. Lastly, It tendeth to corrupt your apprehensions of the nature of Christianity it self; while you will judge of it in others according to your own over-valued measure: When if you knew it as it is in the Heart and Practice, of the sober, wise, humble, charitable, peaceable, mortified, heavenly believer, you would see that it hath a higher glory, than any that's manifested by you.