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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.
and that God requireth you to believe no more, than you have sufficient reason for, to warrant you, ⟨p. 70⟩a•• b••r you out, and that your faith can be no more, than is your perception of the Reasons why you should believe; and that God doth suppose Reason when he infuseth Faith; and useth Reason in ••e us• of faith. They that Believe, and know not why, or know no sufficient Reason to warrant their Belief, do take a fancy, an Opinion, or a dream for faith. I know that many honest hearted Christians are unable to dispute for their Religion, or to give to others a satisfactory account of the Reasons of their faith or h•pe: But yet they have the true apprehension of some solid Reasons in themselves; and they are not Christians they know not why; And though their knowledge be small as to the number o• propositions known, yet it doth always extend to all that is essential to Christianity and Godliness, and they do not believe they know not what: And their knowledge is greater intensively, and in its value and operation, than the knowledge of the learnedst ungodly man in the world.
and that God requireth you to believe no more, than you have sufficient reason for, to warrant you, ⟨p. 70⟩a•• b••r you out, and that your faith can be no more, than is your perception of the Reasons why you should believe; and that God doth suppose Reason when he infuseth Faith; and useth Reason in ••e us• of faith. They that Believe, and know not why, or know no sufficient Reason to war•ant their Belief, do take a fansie, an Opinion, or a dream for faith. I know that many honest hearted Christians are unable to dispute for their Religion, or to give to others a satisfactory account of the Reasons of their faith or h•pe: But yet they have the true apprehension of some solid Reasons in themselves; and they are not Christians they know not why; And though their knowledge be small as to the number o propositions known, yet it doth alwayes extend to all that is essential to Christianity and Godliness, and they do not believe they know not what: And their knowledge is greater intensively, and in its value and operation, than the knowledge of the learnedst ungodly man in the world.