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

[35], 929, [5], 214 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. · 1.2M words · Wing B1219 · ESTC R21847

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Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 6: DIRECT. VI. Remember that God is your Sovereign King, to Rule and Judge you: And that i…Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 6: DIRECT. VI. Remember that God is your Soveraign King, to Rule and Iudge you: And that i…

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§. 10. Direct. 7. Consider that when God doth not Govern you, you are Ruled by the flesh, the world ¹and the Devil. And what right or fitness they have to govern you, and what is their work, and final reward, methinks you should easily discern. If ye live after the flesh, ye shall die, Rom. 8. 13. And if ye saw to the flesh, of the flesh ye shall reap corruption. Gal. 6. 8. It will strike you with horror, if in the hour of temptation, you would but think: I am now going to disobey my God, and to obey the flesh, the world, or the Devil; and to prefer their Will before his Will.

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§. 11. Direct. 8. Turn your eye upon the rebellious Nations of the earth, and upon the state of the ¹most malignant and ungodly men, and consider that such madness and misery as you discern i• them, every wilful disobedience to God doth tend to, and partaketh of in its degree. To see a swinish Drunkard in his Vomit; to hear a raging Bedlam curse and swear; or a malignant Wretch blaspheme and scorn at a holy life; to hear how foolishly they talk against God; and see how maliciously they hate his servants, one would think should turn ones stomach against all sin for ever. To think what Bea•s or incarnate Devils many of the ungodly are: to think what confusion and inhumanity possesseth most of those Nations that know not God, one would think should make the least degree of sin seem odious to us, when the dominion and ripeness of it is so odious.²

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Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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