A26892:6359
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.
2 Cor. 3. 17. The Lord is the spirit, and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Phil. 1. 19. Through the supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ.
Phil. 1. 19. Through the supply of the spirit of Iesus Christ.
Joh. 15. 4. Abide in me and I in you: As the branch cannot bear fruit of it self, except it abide in the Vine, no more can ye except ye abide in me. V. 5. I am the Vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: For without me (or, out of me, or, severed from me) ye can do nothing.
I will add no more: All this is proof enough that the spirit is not given radically or Immediately from God to any believer, but to Christ, and so derivatively from him to us. Not that the Divine nature in the third person is subject to the humane nature in Christ; But that God hath made it the office of our Mediators Glorified Humanity, to be the Cistern that shall first receive the Waters of life, and convey them by the pipes of his appointed means to all the offices of his house: Or to be the Head of the Animal spirits, and by nerves to convey them to all the members.