A26892:716
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.
DIRECT. VI. 1Remember that God is your Sovereign King, to Rule and Judge you: And that it is your Rectitude and happiness to obey and please him: Labour therefore to bring2 your souls and bodies into the most absolute subjection to him, and to make it your Delight and business sincerely and exactly to obey his Will.
DIRECT. VI. 1Remember that God is your Soveraign King, to Rule and Iudge you: And that it is your Rectitude and happiness to obey and please him: Labour therefore to bring2 your souls and bodies into the most absolute subjection to him, and to make it your Delight and business sincerely and exactly to obey his Will.
- 1Gr. Dir. 6.
- 2Of subjection to God as our Supreme Governor.Of subjection to God as our Supream Governour.
§. 1. Having Resigned your selves absolutely to God as your Owner, you are next to subject your selves absolutely to God as your Governor or King. How much of our Religion consisteth in this, you may see in the nature of the thing, in the design of the Law and Word of God, in the doctrine and example of Jesus Christ, in the description of the last judgement, and in the common consent of all the world. Though Love is the highest work of man, yet is it so far from discharging