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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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§. 5. Your Remedy against this dangerous temptation is, to remember that you are yet young in knowledge, and that Ignorance is like darkness that will cause doubts and difficulties and fears; and that all these will vanish as your Light increaseth▪ and therefore you must wait in patience, till your ••p•r knowledge •it you for satisfaction: And in the mean time be sure that you take up your hearts most with the great, fundamental, necessary, plain and certain points, which your salvation is laid upon, and which are more suited to your state and strength: If you will be gnawing bones, when you should be sucking milk, and have not patience to stay till you are past your childhood, no ma•v•l if you find them hard, and if they stick in your throats, or break your teeth. See that you live upon God in Christ, and love and practise what you know, and think of the excellency of so much as is already revealed to you: You know already what is the end that you must seek, and where your Happiness consisteth; and what Christ hath done to prepare it for you, and how you must be justified and sanctified and walk with God: Have you God, and Christ, and Heaven to think on, and all the mercies of the Gospel to delight in, and will you lay by these as common matters, or overlook them, and perplex your selves about every difficulty in your way? Make clean work before you as you go, and live in the joyful acknowledgement of the Mercies which you have received, and •f the practice of the things you know, and then your difficulties will vanish as you go on.
§. 5. Your Remedy against this dangerous temptation is, to remember that you are yet young in knowledge, and that Ignorance is like darkness that will cause doubts and difficulties and fears; and that all these will vanish as your Light increaseth▪ and therefore you must wait in patience, till your ••p•r knowledge •it you for satisfaction: And in the mean time be sure that you take up your hearts most with the great, fundamental, necessary, plain and certain points, which your salvation is laid upon, and which are more suited to your state and strength: If you will be gnawing bones, when you should be sucking milk, and have not patience to stay till you are past your childhood, no mavl if you find them hard, and if they stick in your throats, or break your teeth. See that you live upon God in Christ, and love and practise what you know, and think of the excellency of so much as is already revealed to you: You know already what is the end that you must seek, and where your Happiness consisteth; and what Christ hath done to prepare it for you, and how you must be justified and sanctified and walk with God: Have you God, and Christ, and Heaven to think on, and all the mercies of the Gospel to delight in, and will you lay by these as common matters, or overlook them, and prplx your selves about every difficulty in your way? Make clean work before you as you go, and live in the joyful acknowledgement of the Mercies which you have received, and f the practice of the things you know, and then your difficulties will vanish as you go on.