A26892:490
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.
§. 8. 4. All that are in Heaven have gone this way, and overcome such oppositions and difficulties1 as these: They were tempted, troubled, scorned, opposed as well as you: And yet they now triumph in glory. These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made ⟨p. 45⟩them white in the blood of the Lamb: Therefore are they before the Throne of God, and serve him day and night in his Temple, and he that sitteth on the Throne shall dwell among them, Rev. 7. 14. And all that ever come to Heaven (at age) are like to come this way. And doth not the company encourage you? and the success of those that have overcome before you? Will you have the end, and yet refuse the way.
- 1I•. ib▪ saith that an A••••an Bishop being put over a City, all that could take Ship fled away to Spain, and the rest not only refused all the temptations of the Bishop, but also publicly celebrated the Divine Mysteries in one of their houses; and the King being hereat enraged, caused them in the open Market-place to have their tongues and right hands cut off by the root: and that they yet spake after as well as before. And them that will n•t believe it, he referreth to one of them then living, and honoured for this in the Emperors Court, that still spake perfectly. pag. 462, 463.I•. ib▪ saith that an A••••an Bishop being put over a City, all that could take Ship fled away to Spain, and the rest not only refused all the temptations of the Bishop, but also publickly celebrated the Divine Mysteries in one of their houses; and the King being hereat enraged, caused them in the open Market-place to have their tongues and right hands cut off by the root: and that they yet spake after as well as before. And them that will n•t believe it, he referreth to one of them then living, and hnoured for this in the Emperours Court, that still spake perfectly. pag. 462, 463.