A26892:765
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.
6. Remember how earnestly and constantly he preached, not stories, or jingles, or subtle controversies, but Repentance, and faith, and self-denial and obedience: So great was his Love to souls that when he had auditors he preached not only in the Temple and Synagogues, but in mountains, and in a ship, and any other convenient place, and no fury of the Rulers or Pharisees could silence him till his hour was come, having his Fathers Commission: And even to particular persons he vouchsafed by conference to open the Mysteries of Salvation. To teach us, to love and attend to1 the plain and powerful preaching of the Gospel, and not to forbear any necessary means for the honour of God and the saving of souls, because of the enmity, or opposition of malicious men, but to work while it is day, seeing the night is coming when none can work.2
6. Remember how earnestly and constantly he preached, not stories, or jingles, or subtile controversies, but Repentance, and faith, and self-denial and obedience: So great was his Love to souls that when he had auditors he preached not only in the Temple and Synagogues, but in mountains, and in a ship, and any other convenient place, and no fury of the Rulers or Pharises could silence him till his hour was come, having his Fathers Commission: And even to particular persons he vouchsafed by conference to open the Mysteries of Salvation. To teach us, to love and attend to1 the plain and powerful preaching of the Gospel, and not to forbear any necessary means for the honour of God and the saving of souls, because of the enmity, or opposition of malitious men, but to work while it is day, seeing the night is coming when none can work.2
- 1John▪ 3. & 4.
- 2John 9. 4.