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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.
§. 1. I give this Direction only to those that may enjoy so great a mercy if they will. Some live where no such Minister is: Some are Children, or Servants, or Wives, that are bound and cannot remove1 their habitations, or enjoy such liberty, by reason of the unwillingness and restraint of others. Some are so poor, that they cannot remove their dwelling for such advantages. And some are so serviceable in their places, that they may be bound to stay under a very weak Minister, that they may do good to others, where they have best opportunity. But let him that can be free, and possess so great a mercy, accept it thankfully, though to his cost. As Christ said in another case, Every man cannot receive the saying; but he that can receive it, let him.
- 1Look more i• your Teach[…] at matter […] •ine wo•ds. August•• ▪ de Cat[…]d. •ud. •. 9. ••i. maxim▪ utile est nosse ita esse p•aep•n•ndas verbis sententias, ut praeponitur animus corpo•i: ex quo •it, ut ita malle debe•nt veriores quam disertio•e• audire Sermones, sicut malle debent prudentiores quam formiosio•es habere ami•os. Noverint etiam non esse vocem ad aure• Dei nisi animi affectum: Ita enim non irridebunt si aliqu•s antisies & Ministros ote animadverterint vel cum barbarismis & solaecismis Deum inocare vel eadem verba quae pronunciant, non intelligere, perturbateque distinguere. Vid. Fisacu de Eic. autorit. p. 105. Paenituit multos vanae sterilisque Cathedrae. Juven. Itais Ciceronianis sum iniquior, quia tantum loquuntur verba, nuns, & Rhetorica ipsorum plerumque est [Greek or Hebrew]: Est glssa sine textu: nux sine nucleo: nubes sine pluviâ. Plumae sunt melores quam avis ipsa. B choltzer. Take heed lest prejudice or any corruption possess your minds: for then all that you hear, will be unsavcury or unprofitable to you: Magra debet esse eloquentia, quae invitis placcat, ait. Senec. prae. lb. 10. Cont o.