A26892:6973
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.
3. And so far as is necessary to the satisfying of the Church of the truth of our Repentance, in order to our Absolution and Communion.
4. Especially so far as is necessary to subdue our fleshly lusts, and tame our bodies, and bring ⟨p. 865⟩them into a due subjection to our faith, and to avoid our sin for the time to come. And also by1 the exercise of sober mortification prudently, to keep under all our worldly phantasies, and love of this present world, without unfitting our selves for duty.
5. And so far as is needful by such mortification, to fit us for fervent prayer, especially by fasting on days of humiliation; and to help us in our meditations of death and judgement, and to further our heavenly contemplations and conversation.
5. And so far as is needful by such mortification, to fit us for fervent prayer, especially by fasting on dayes of humiliation; and to help us in our meditations of death and judgement, and to further our heavenly contemplations and conversation.