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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.
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.
3. And how he condescended to labour at a Trade and mean imployment in the world; to teach us that our Bodies as well as our Minds must express their obedience, and have their ordinary imployment; 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.
4. Remember how he refused not to submit to all the ordinances of God, and to fulfil all righteousness, and to be initiated into the solemn administration of his office by the Baptism of John, 1which God approved by sending down upon him the Holy Ghost: To teach us all to expect his Spirit in the use of his ordinances.
4. Remember how he refused not to submit to all the ordinances of God, and to fullfil all righteousness, and to be initiated into the solemn administration of his office by the Baptism of Iohn, 1which God appoved by sending down upon him the Holy Ghost: To teach us all to expect his Spirit in the use of his ordinances.
- 1Mat. 3. 15▪ 1 17.