A26892:7075
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.
2. There is great difference between such as are hindered by just cause and real necessities, and such as are hindered only through profane malignity.
2. There is great difference between such as are hindered by just cause and real necessities, and such as are hindered only through prophane malignity.
1. Poor people have not so much leisure from their callings, as the Rich: And so providing for their families, may at that time, by necessity become the greater and the present duty.
2. So may it be with Soldiers, Judges and others that have present urgent work of public consequence; when others have no such impediment.
2. So may it be with Souldiers, Judges and others that have present urgent work of publick consequence; when others have no such impediment.
3. He that is the child or slave of another, or is his own by propriety, is more at his power, than he that is only a subject, and so is but to be Governed in order to his own and the common good.