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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.
12. Mark also how far Christ was from being guilty of any idle, or lascivious, or foolish kind of talk: And how holy and profitable all his speeches were: To teach us also to speak as the oracles of God, such words as tend to edification, and to administer grace unto the hearers, and to keep our tongues from all profane, lascivious, empty, idle speeches.
12. Mark also how farr Christ was from being guilty of any idle, or lascivious, or foolish kind of talk: And how holy and profitable all his speeches were: To teach us also to speak as the oracles of God, such words as tend to edification, and to administer grace unto the hearers, and to keep our tongues from all prophane, lascivious, empty, idle speeches.
13. Remember, that Pride, and Passion are condemned by your pattern: Christ bids you [Learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest unto your souls,] Mat. 11. 28, 29. Therefore he resolveth that except men be converted and become as little children, they shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; Mat. 18. 3. Behold therefore the Lamb of God, and be ashamed of your fierce and ravenous natures.
14. Remember that Christ your Lord and pattern did humble himself to the meanest office of love, even to ••sh the feet of his disciples: Not to teach you to wash a few poor mens feet as a Ceremony once a year, and persecute and murder the servants of Christ the rest of the year, as the Roman Vice-Christ doth; But to teach us, that if he their Lord and Master washed his disciples feet, we also should stoop as low in any office of love, for one another.