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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§. 9. Direct. 8. It being the office of the present ordinary Ministry, only to expound and apply the doctrine ¹of Christ already recorded in the Scriptures, believe not any man, that contradicteth this recorded ⟨p. 94⟩doctrine, what Reason, Authority •r Revelation soever he pretend. Isa. 8. 20. To the Law and to the Testimony: if they speak not according to these, it is because there is no Light in them. No Reason can be Reason indeed that is pretended against the Reason of the Creator and God of Reason. Authority pretended against the Highest Authority of God, is no Authority: God never gave Authority to any against himself▪; nor to deceive mens souls; nor to dispense with the Law of Christ; nor to warrant men to sin against him; nor to make any supplements to his Law or Doctrine. The Apostles had their² Power only to edification, but not to destruction. There is no Revelation from God that is contrary to his own Revelation already delivered as his perfect Law and Rule unto the Church, and therefore none supplemental to it. If an Apostle or an Angel from Heaven (per possibile vel impossibile) shall Evangelize to us besides what is Evangelized, and we have received, he must be held accursed. Gal. 1. 6, 7, 8.

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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.