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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§. 15. Direct. 3. Neglect not those means which the Spirit hath appointed you to use, for the receiving ¹of us help, and which be useth in his holy operations. If you will meet with him, attend him in his own way, and expect him not in by-ways where he useth not to go. Pray, and meditate, and hear, and read, and do your best, and expect his blessing. Though your ploughing and s•win• will not give you a plentiful harvest without the Sun, and Rain, and the blessing of God, yet these will not do •t neither, unless you plough and sow. God hath not appointed a course of means in Nature or Morality in vain, nor will he use to meet you in any other way.

§. 15. Direct. 3. Neglect not those means which the Spirit hath appointed you to use, for the receiving ¹of us help, and which be useth in his holy operations. If you will meet with him, attend him in his own way, and expect him not in by-wayes where he useth not to go. Pray, and me•ita•e, and hear, and read, and do your best, and expect his blessing. Though your plowing and s•win• will not give you a plentiful harvest without the Sun, and Rain, and the blessing of God, yet these will not do •t neither, unless you plow and sow. God hath not appointed a course of means in Nature or Morality in vain, nor will he use to meet you in any other way.

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§. 16. Direct. 4. Do most when the Spirit helpeth you most. Neglect not the extraordinary measures

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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.