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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.
Direct. 1. Let your preparations in secret and in your family on the beginning of the1 Lords days, be such as conduce to fit you for the public Worship. Run not to Church as ungodly2 people do, with a carnal heart, that never sought God before you went, nor considered what you go about; As if all your Religion were to make up the number of the auditors; and you3 thought God must not be worshipped and obeyed, at home, but only in the Church. God may in mercy meet with an unprepared heart, and open his eyes and heart, and save him; But he hath made no promise of it to any such. He that goeth to Worship that God at Church, whom he forgetteth and despiseth in his heart and house, may expect to be despised by him. O consider what it is for a sinner that must shortly die, to go with the servants of God to worship him? to pray for his salvation, and to hear what God hath to say to him by his Minister, for the life of his immortal soul?
Direct. 1. Let your preparations in secret and in your family on the beginning of the1 Lords dayes, be such as conduce to fit you for the publick Worship. Run not to Church as ungodly2 people do, with a carnal heart, that never sought God before you went, nor considered what you go about; As if all your Religion were to make up the number of the auditors; and you3 thought God must not be worshipped and obeyed, at home, but only in the Church. God may in mercy meet with an unprepared heart, and open his eyes and heart, and save him; But he hath made no promise of it to any such. He that goeth to Worship that God at Church, whom he forgetteth and despiseth in his heart and house, may expect to be despised by him. O consider what it is for a sinner that must shortly die, to go with the servants of God to worship him? to pray for his salvation, and to hear what God hath to say to him by his Minister, for the life of his immortal soul?