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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. 2. Jesus Christ is the Captain of thy salvation, Heb. 2. 10. and hath gone before thee this1 way himself, and hath conquered for thee; and now is engaged to make thee Conqueror: And darest thou not go on where Christ doth lead the way? He was perfected through suffering himself, and will see that thou be not destroyed by it. Canst thou draw back, when thou seest his steps and his blood?
§. 6. 2. Jesus Christ is the Captain of thy salvation, Heb. 2. 10. and hath gone before thee this1 way himself, and hath conquered for thee; and now is engaged to make thee Conquerour: And darest thou not go on where Christ doth lead the way? He was perfected through suffering himself, and will see that thou be not destroyed by it. Canst thou draw back, when thou seest his steps and his blood?
- 1Securus ego •um de Christo De•, & domino meo. Haec Regi dicatis, Subigat ignibus, adigat bestiis, excrucie• omnium tormento•um generibus, si cessero, f•ustra sum in Ecclesi• Catholica baptizatus; Nam si haec praesens vita sola esset, & aliam quae vera est, non speraremus aeternam, nec ita facerem ut modicum & temporali•er gloriarer, & ingratus exister•m qui suam fidem mihi contul•t, Creatori. Victorianus ad Hunnerychum in Vict. Utic. p. 461. Victor Uti eusis saith, that before the persecution of Hunnerychus these Visions were seen: 1. All the Lights put out in the Church, and a darkness and stink succeeded. 2. The Church filled with abundance of Swine and Goats. 3. Another saw a great heap of Corn unwinnowed, and a sudden Whirlwind bew away all the Chaff: and after that one came and cast out all the stricken dead and useless Corn, till a very little heap was left. 4. Another heard one cry on the top of a Mount, Migrate, Migrate. 5. Another saw great Stones cast from Heaven on the Earth, which lamed and destroyed: But he hd himself in a Chamber, and none of them could touch him. Pag. 405. Sed hoc aedificium ubi construr: visus est diabolus, statim illud destruere digatus est Christus. Id. ib.