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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. Direct. 1. Remember who it is that is your Teacher: that he is the Son of God, that knoweth his Fathers will, and is the most faithful infallible Pastor of the Church. There is neither ignorance, nor negligence, nor ambition, nor deceit in him, to cause him to conceal the mind of God: There is nothing which we need to know, which he is not both able and willing to acquaint us with.1
§. 2. Direct. 1. Remember who it is that is your Teacher: that he is the Son of God, that knoweth his Fathers will, and is the most faithful infallible Pastor of the Church. There is neither ignorance, nor negligence, nor ambition, nor dec•it in him, to cause him to conceal the mind of God: There is nothing which we need to know, which he is not both able and willing to acquaint us with.1
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§. 3. Direct. 2. Remember what it is that he Teacheth you, and to what End: That it is not how to sin and be damned, as the Devil, the world and the flesh would teach you: nor how to satisfy your lusts, or to know, or do, or attain the trifles of the world: But it is how to be renewed to the Image of God, and how to do his will and please him, and how to be justified at his bar, and how to escape everlasting fire, and how to attain everlasting joys: Consider this well, and you will gladly learn of such a Teacher.