A26892:7736
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.
§. 7. Direct. 3. When you come to seek after more abstruse and real wisdom, join together the study of Physics and Theology; and take not your Physics as separated from or independent on Theology; But as the study of God in his works, and of his works as leading to himself. Otherwise you will be but like a Scrivener and Printer, who maketh his Letters well, but knoweth not what they signify.
§. 7. Direct. 3. When you come to seek after more abstruse and real wisdom, joyn together the study of Physicks and Theologie; and take not your Physicks as separated from or independant on Theologie; But as the study of God in his works, and of his works as leading to himself. Otherwise you will be but like a Scrivener and Printer, who maketh his Letters well, but knoweth not what they signifie.
§. 8. Direct. 4. Unite all [Greek or Hebrew] or knowledge of Real entities into one science; both spirits and Bodies; God being taken in as the First and last, the Original, Director and End of all: And study not the doctrine of Bodies alone, as separated from spirits: For it is but an imaginary separation, and a delusion to mens minds. Or if you will call them by the name of several sciences, be sure you so link those severals together that the due dependence of bodies on spirits, and of the Passive natures on the Active may still be kept discemable: And then they will be one while you call them divers.
§. 8. Direct. 4. Unite all 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or knowledge of Real e•tities into one science; both spirits and Bodies; God being taken in as the First and last, the Original, Director and End of all: And study not the doctrine of Bodies alone, as separated from spirits: For it is but an imaginary separation, and a delusion to mens minds. Or if you will call them by the name of several sciences, be sure you so link those severals together that the due dependance of bodies on spirits, and of the Passive natures on the Active may still be kept discemable: And then they will be one while you call them divers.