A Christian Directory

Name: A Christian Directory
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673

[35], 929, [5], 214 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. · 1.2M words · Wing B1219 · ESTC R21847

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Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 7 › Section 2: Sect. 2. Directions for Learning of Christ as our Teacher.Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 7 › Section 2: S•ct. 2. Directions for Learning of Christ as our Teacher.

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I will instance in no more of his example, because I would not be tedious. Hither now let believers cast their eyes: If you love your Lord, you should love to imitate him, and be glad to find your selves in the way that he hath gone before you. If He lived a worldly or a sensual life, do you do so: If He was an enemy to preaching, and praying, and holy living, be you so: But if he lived in the greatest contempt of all the wealth, and honours, and pleasures of the world, in a life of holy obedience to his Father, wholly preferring the Kingdom of Heaven, and seeking the salvation of the souls of others, and patiently bearing persecution, derision, calumnies and death, then take up your Cross, and follow him in joyfully to the expected Crown.

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§. 7. Direct. 6. If you will Learn of Christ, you must Learn of his Ministers, whom he hath appointed ¹under him to be the Teachers of his Church. He purposely enableth them, inclineth them, and sendeth them to instruct you: Not to have dominion over your faith, but to be your spiritual Fathers, and the Ministers by whom you believe, as God shall give (ability and success) to every one as he pleases, to plant and water, while God giveth the increase, to open mens eyes, and turn them from darkness to light, and to be labourers together with God, whose husbandry and building you are, and to be helpers of your joy. See 2 Cor. 24. Acts 26. 17, 18. 1 Cor. 3. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 . & 4. 15. Seeing therefore Christ hath appointed them under him, to be the ordinary Teachers of his Church, he that heareth them (speaking his message) heareth him, and he that despiseth them, despiseth him, Luke 10. 16. And he that saith, I will hear Christ, but not you, doth say in effect to Christ himself, I will not hear thee, nor learn of thee, unless thou wilt dismiss thy Ushers, and teach me immediately thy self.

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A Christian Directory

DIRECT. VIII. ¹Remember that you are Related to Christ as the Physician of your souls, and to the Holy Ghost as your Sanctifier: Make it therefore your serious study, to be cured by Christ, and cleansed by his Spirit, of all the sinful diseases and defilements of your hearts and lives.

DIRECT. VIII. ¹Remember that you are Related to Christ as the Physicion of your souls, and to the Holy Ghost as your Sanctifier: Make it therefore your serious study, to be cured by Christ, and cleansed by his Spirit, of all the sinful diseases and defilements of your hearts and lives.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

DIRECT. VIII. 1Remember that you are Related to Christ as the Physician of your souls, and to the Holy Ghost as your Sanctifier: Make it therefore your serious study, to be cured by Christ, and cleansed by his Spirit, of all the sinful diseases and defilements of your hearts and lives.

DIRECT. VIII. 1Remember that you are Related to Christ as the Physicion of your souls, and to the Holy Ghost as your Sanctifier: Make it therefore your serious study, to be cured by Christ, and cleansed by his Spirit, of all the sinful diseases and defilements of your hearts and lives.

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DIRECT. VIII. ¹Remember that you are Related to Christ as the Physician of your souls, and to the Holy Ghost as your Sanctifier: Make it therefore your serious study, to be cured by Christ, and cleansed by his Spirit, of all the sinful diseases and defilements of your hearts and lives.

DIRECT. VIII. ¹Remember that you are Related to Christ as the Physicion of your souls, and to the Holy Ghost as your Sanctifier: Make it therefore your serious study, to be cured by Christ, and cleansed by his Spirit, of all the sinful diseases and defilements of your hearts and lives.