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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
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§. 3. 2. If your conclusions be peremptory upon mere self-conceitedness, you may be in an error for ought you know: and so you are but confident in an error. And then how far may you go in seducing others, and censuring dissenters, and come back when you have done, and confess that you were all this while mistaken your selves?
§. 3. 2. If your conclusions be peremptory upon meer self-conceitedness, you may be in an error for ought you know: and so you are but confident in an error. And then how far may you go in seducing others, and censuring dissenters, and come back when you have done, and confess that you were all this while mistaken your selves?
§. 4. 3. For a man to be confident that he knoweth what he knoweth not, is but the way to keep him ignorant, and shut the door against all means of further information. When the Opinion is sixth by prejudice and conceit, there is no ready entrance for the light.
§. 4. 3. For a man to be confident that he knoweth what he knoweth not, is but the way to keep him ignorant, and shut the door against all means of further information. When the Opinion is fixt by prejudice and conceit, there is no ready entrance for the light.
§. 5. 4 And to be ungroundedly confident so young, is not only to take up with your Teachers word, instead of a faith and knowledge of your own, but also to forestall all diligence to know more; and so you may lay by all your studies, save only to know what those men hold, whose judgements are your Religion: (Too Popish and easy a way to be safe.)
§. 5. 4 And to be ungroundedly confident so young, is not only to take up with your Teachers word, instead of a faith and knowledge of your own, but also to forestall all diligence to know more; and so you may lay by all your studies, save only to know what those men hold, whose judgements are your Religion: (Too Popish and easie a way to be safe.)