A Christian Directory

Name: A Christian Directory
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673

[35], 929, [5], 214 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. · 1.2M words · Wing B1219 · ESTC R21847

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Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 3: DIRECT. III. Understand well what it is to believe in the Holy Ghost: and see that he d…

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§. 12. II. I have been the longer (though too short) in acquainting you with the Office of the Holy Ghost (supposing your Belief that he is the third person in the Trinity) because it is an Article of grand importance, neglected by many that profess it, and because there are so many and dangerous errors in the world about it. Your great care now must be 1. To find this Spirit in you, as the Principle of your operations: and 2. To obey it, and follow its motions, as it leadeth you up to communion with God. Of the first I have spoken in the first Chapter. For the second observe these few Directions.

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§. 13. Direct. 1. Be sure you mistake not the Spirit of God and its motions, nor receive instead of¹ them, the motions of Satan, or of your passions, pride or fleshly wisdom. It is easy to think you are obeying the Spirit, when you are obeying Satan and your own corruptions against the Spirit. By these fruits the Spirit of God is known. 1. The Spirit of God is for Heavenly Wisdom, and neither for Foolishness, or treacherous craftiness, Psal. 19. 7 . & 94. 8. Jer. 4. 22. 1 Cor. 2. 4; 5, 6, 7. 2. The Spirit of God is a Spirit of Love, delighting to do good; its doctrine and motions are for Love, and tend to Good; abhorring both selfishness and hurtfulness to others. Gal. 5. 21, 22. 3. He is a Spirit of Concord, and is ever for the Unity of all believers; abhorring both Divisions among the Saints, and carnal compliances and confederacies with the wicked, 1 Cor. 12. Ephes. 4. 3, 4, 5, 6, 13

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A Christian Directory

DIRECT. IV. ¹Let it be your chiefest study to attain to a true, orderly, and practical knowledge of God,² in his several Attributes and Relations; and to find a due impression from each of them upon your hearts, and a distinct effectual improvement of them in your lives.

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DIRECT. IV. 1Let it be your chiefest study to attain to a true, orderly, and practical knowledge of God,2 in his several Attributes and Relations; and to find a due impression from each of them upon your hearts, and a distinct effectual improvement of them in your lives.

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DIRECT. IV. ¹Let it be your chiefest study to attain to a true, orderly, and practical knowledge of God,² in his several Attributes and Relations; and to find a due impression from each of them upon your hearts, and a distinct effectual improvement of them in your lives.