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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.
Let the Image of Christ in all his holy examples, be always lively written upon your minds 1. Let the great ones of the world remember that their Lord was not born of such as bore rule, or were in worldly pomp and dignity, but of persons that lived but meanly in the world, (however they were of the royal line): How he was not born in a palace, but a stable, and laid in a manger, without the attendance or accommodations of the rich.
Let the Image of Christ in all his holy examples, be allways lively written upon your minds 1. Let the great ones of the world remember that their Lord was not born of such as bore rule, or were in worldly pomp and dignity, but of persons that lived but meanly in the world, (however they were of the royal line): How he was not born in a pallace, but a stable, and laid in a manger, without the attendance or accommodations of the rich.
2. Remember how he subjected himself unto his reputed Father and his Mother, to teach all Children1 subjection and obedience.
- 1Luke. •. 51.
3. And how he condescended to labour at a Trade and mean employment in the world; to teach us that our Bodies as well as our Minds must express their obedience, and have their ordinary employment; and to teach men to labour and live in a calling; and to comfort poor labourers with assurance that God accepteth them in the meanest work, and that Christ himself lived so before them, and chose their kind of life, and not the life of Princes and Nobles that live in Pomp, and Ease, and Pleasure.