A26892:6802
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.
7. And, if proud weak men have not the composing and imposing of it, all know that words drawn up by study, upon sober premeditation and consultation, have a greater advantage, to be exact and apt, then those that were never thought on till we are speaking them.
8. The very fear of doing amiss, disturbeth some unready men, and maketh them do all the •est the worse.
9. The Auditors know before hand, whether that which they are to join in, be sound or unsound having time to try it.
9. The Auditors know before hand, whether that which they are to joyn in, be sound or unsound having time to try it.
10. And they can more readily put in their consent to what is spoken, and make the prayers their own, when they know before hand what it is, than they can do, when they know not before they hear it; It being hard to the duller sort of hearers, to concur with an Understanding and Consent as quick, as the speakers words are. Not but that this may be done, but not without great difficulty in the duller sort.