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

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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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§. 14. Direct. 2. Quench not the Spirit, either by wilful sin, or by your neglecting of its offered help. ¹It is as the spring to all your spiritual motions; as the Wind to your Sails: You can do nothing without it. Therefore reverence and regard its help, and pray for it, and obey it, and neglect it not. When you are sure it is the Spirit of God indeed, that is knocking at the door, behave not your selves as if you heard not. 1. Obey him speedily: Delay is a present unthankful refusal, and a kind of a denial. 2. Obey him throughly: A half obedience is disobedience. Put him not off with Ananias and Sapphira's gift; the half of that which he requireth of you. 3. Obey him constantly: not sometime hearkening to him and more frequently neglecting him; but attending him in a learning obediential course of life.

§. 14. Direct. 2. Quench not the Spirit, either by wilful sin, or by your neglecting of its offered help. ¹It is as the spring to all your spiritual motions; as the Wind to your Sails: You can do nothing without it. Therefore reverence and regard its help, and pray for it, and obey it, and neglect it not. When you are sure it is the Spirit of God indeed, that is knocking at the door, behave not your selves as if you heard not. 1. Obey him speedily: Delay is a present unthankful refusal, and a kind of a denyal. 2. Obey him throughly: A half obedience is disobedience. Put him not off with Ananias and Saphira's gift; the half of that which he requireth of you. 3. Obey him constantly: not sometime hearkning to him and more frequently neglecting him; but attending him in a learning obediential course of life.

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§. 15. Direct. 3. Neglect not those means which the Spirit hath appointed you to use, for the receiving ¹

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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.