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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.
Temptations to draw us off from duty. p. 124 Tit. 4. Temptations to frustrate holy duties. p. 126 Gr. Dir. 10. How to work as servants to Christ our Lord. The true doctrine of Good Works. p. 128 Directions for our serving Christ in well doing, p. 130. Where are many Rules to know what are good works, and how to do them acceptably and successfully. Q. Is doing good, or avoiding sin to be most looked at in the choice of a Calling or Employment of life? p. 133 Q. May one change his Calling for advantages to do good? Q. Who are excused from living in a Calling, or from Work? p. 124 Q. Must I do a thing as a Good work, while I doubt, whether it be good, indifferent, or sin? p. 134▪ Q. Is it not every mans duty to obey his Conscience? p. 135 Q. Is it not a sin to go against Conscience? Q. Whether the formal cause alone do constitute obedience? Q. How sin must be avoided by one that hath an erroneous conscience? Q. How can a man lawfully resist or strive against an erring conscience, when he striveth against a supposed truth? Q Is not going against conscience, sinning against Knowledge? p. 136 Q. When the information of conscience requireth a long time, is it not a duty to obey it at the present? Q. May one do a Great Good when it cannot be done but by a Little sin (as a Lye)? Q Must I not forbear all Good Works, which I cannot do without sin? Q Must I forbear a certain great duty (as preaching the Gospel) for fear of a small uncertain sin? Q. What shall a man do that is in doubt after all the means that he can use? p. 137 Sixteen Rules to guide a doubting conscience, and to know among many seeming duties, which is the greatest, and to be preferred, p. 137 Gr. Dir. 11. To LOVE GOD as our Father and Felicity and End. The Nature of holy Love. God must be Loved as the Universal Infinite Good: Whether Passionately? What of God must be loved? p. 141 What must be the Motive of our first Love? Whether Gods special Love to us? The sorts of holy Love? Why Love is the highest Grace? p. 143 The Contraries of holy Love. How God is Hated? The Counterfeits of Love. p. 144 Directions how to excite and exercise Divine Love. ibid. How to see God: Signs of true Love. p 154 Gr. Dir. 12. Absolutely to Trust God with Soul, Body and all, with full acquiescence: The Nature of Trust (of which see more in my Life of Faith, and Disp. of Saving Faith.) p. 157. The Contraries:
Temptations to draw us off from duty. p. 124 Tit. 4. Temptations to frustrate holy duties. p. 126 Gr. Dir. 10. How to work as servants to Christ our Lord. The true doctrine of Good Works. p. 128 Directions for our serving Christ in well doing, p. 130. Where are many Rules to know what are good works, and how to do them acceptably and successfully. Q. Is doing good, or avoiding sin to be most looked at in the choice of a Calling or Employment of life? p. 133 Q. May one change his Calling for advantages to do good? Q. Who are excused from living in a Calling, or from Work? p. 124 Q. Must I do a thing as a Good work, while I doubt, whether it be good, indifferent, or sin? p. 134 Q. Is it not every mans duty to obey his Conscience? p. 135 Q. Is it not a sin to go against Conscience? Q. Whether the formal cause alone do constitute obedience? Q. How sin must be avoided by one that hath an erroneus conscience? Q. How can a man lawfully resist or strive against an erring conscience, when he striveth against a supposed truth? Q Is not going against conscience, sinning against Knowledge? p. 136 Q. When the information of conscience requireth a long time, is it not a duty to obey it at the present? Q. May one do a Great Good when it cannot be done but by a Little sin (as a Lye)? Q Must I not forbear all Good Works, which I cannot do without sin? Q Must I forbear a certain great duty (as preaching the Gospel) for fear of a small uncertain sin? Q. What shall a man do that is in doubt after all the means that he can use? p. 137 Sixteen Rules to guide a doubting conscience, and to know among many seeming duties, which is the greatest, and to be preferred, p. 137 Gr. Dir. 11. To LOVE GOD as our Father and Felicity and End. The Nature of holy Love. God must be Loved as the Universal Infinite Good: Whether Passionately? What of God must be loved? p. 141 What must be the Motive of our first Love? Whether Gods special Love to us? The sorts of holy Love? Why Love is the highest Grace? p. 143 The Contraries of holy Love. How God is Hated? The Counterfeits of Love. p. 144 Directions how to excite and exercise Divine Love. ibid. How to see God: Signs of true Love. p 154 Gr. Dir. 12. Absolutely to Trust God with Soul, Body and all, with full acquiscence: The Nature of Trust (of which see more in my Life of Faith, and Disp. of Saving Faith.) p. 157. The Contraries: