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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
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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.
5. Remember how he voluntarily begun his work with an encounter with the Tempter in the Wilderness, upon his fasting: and suffered the Tempter to proceed till he moved him to the most odious sin, even to worship the Devil himself: To teach us that God loveth tried Servants, and expecteth that we be not turned from him by temptations; especially those that enter upon a public ministry, must be tried men that have overcome the Tempter: and to comfort tempted Christians, who may remember, that their Saviour himself was most blasphemously tempted to as odious sins as ever they were; and that to be greatly tempted without consenting or yielding to the sin, is so far from being a sin in it self, that it is the greatest honour of our obedience; and that the Devil who molesteth and haunteth us with his temptations, is a conquered enemy, whom our Lord in person hath overcome.