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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
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§. 18. 15. Sometimes weak Christians that have not gifts of memory or utterance, are apt to think that Ministers indeed and able men are accepted of God, but that he little valueth such as them. It is here a great encouragement to the soul, to think that Jesus our great High Priest, doth make all his Children Priests to God. They are a chosen generation, a royal Priesthood, an holy Nation, a peculiar people, that they should show forth the praises of him that hath called them, out of darkness into his marvellous light: An holy Priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ, 1 Pet. 2. 5, •. Even their broken hearts and contrite Spirits, are a sacrifice which God will not desp•se, Psal. 51. 17. He knoweth the meaning of the Spirits groans, Rom. 8. 26, 27.
§. 18. 15. Sometimes weak Christians that have not gifts of memory or utterance, are apt to think that Ministers indeed and able men are accepted of God, but that he little valueth such as them. It is here a great encouragement to the soul, to think that Jesus our great High Priest, doth make all his Children Priests to God. They are a chosen generation, a royal Priesthood, an holy Nation, a peculiar people, that they should shew forth the prayses of him that hath called them, out of darkness into his marvell•us light: An holy Priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Iesus Christ, 1 Pet. 2. 5, •. Even their broken hearts and contrite Spirits, are a sacrifice which God will not desp•se, Psal. 51. 17. He knoweth the meaning of the Spirits groans, Rom. 8. 26, 27.