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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.
§. 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.)
§. 6. 5. If you must never change your first opinions or apprehensions, how will you grow in understanding? Will you be no wiser at age, than you were in childhood, and after long study and experience than before? Nature and Grace do tend to increase.
§. 7. Indeed, if you should be never so peremptory in your opinions, you cannot resolve to hold them to the end: For Light is powerful; and may change you whether you will or no: you cannot tell what that Light will do which you never saw. But prejudice will make you resist the light, and make it harder for you to understand.