A26892:6388
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.
3. And God doth not appoint such means unnecessarily or in vain: nor may we ordinarily expect his grace but in the use of the means of Grace, which he hath appointed us to use.
4. It is certain that Gods receiving the Children of the faithful is an act of Gods Love to the Parents as well as the Children, and promised as a part of his blessing on themselves.
5. It is certain that these Parents hold their own mercies upon the condition of their own continued fidelity: And (let their Apostasy be on other reasons never so impossible, or not future, yet) the promise of continuance and consummation of the personal felicity of the greatest Saint on earth, is still conditional, upon the condition of •his persevering fidelity.
5. It is certain that these Parents hold their own mercies upon the condition of their own continued fidelity: And (let their Apostasie be on other reasons never so impossible, or not future, yet) the promise of continuance and consummation of the personal felicity of the greatest Saint on earth, is still conditional, upon the condition of •his persevering sidelity.