A26892:5514
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.
§. 13. Direct. 2. The two first Things which you are to learn are, what man is, and what God is: 1the Nature and Relation of the two Parties is the first thing to be known in order to the knowledge of the Covenant it self, and all following transactions between God and man: One error here will introduce abundance. A thousand other points in Natural Philosophy you may safely be ignorant of; b•t if you know not what Man is, what Reason is, what Natural Free-will is, and what the inferior sensitive 2faculties are, as to their Uses, it will lay you open to innumerable errors. In the Nature of man, you must see the foundation of his relations unto God: And if you know not those Great Rel••i•ns the duties of which must take up all our lives, you may easily foresee the consequents of such ignorance or error. So if you know not what God is, and what his Relations to us are, so far as is necessary to our living in the duties of those Relations, the consequents of your ignorance will b• sad. If learned men be but perverted in their apprehensions of some on• Attribute of God (as those that think his Goodness is nothing but his Benignity, or proneness to do good, or that he is a N••••s••ry ag••t d•ing good ad ultimum posse, &c.) what abundance of horrid and impious consequents will follow?
§. 13. Direct. 2. The two first Things which you are to learn are, what man is, and what God is: 1the N•ture and Rel•tion of the two Parties is the first thing to be known in order to the knowledge of the C•venant it self, and all following transctions between God and man: One error here will introduce abundance. A thousand other points in Natural Philosophy you may safely be ignorant of; bt if you know not what Man is, what Reason is, what Natural Free-will is, and what the inferiur sensitive