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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.
2. The Upright are the Pillars of humane society, that keep up Truth and Justice in the world; without whom it would be but a company of liars, deceivers, robbers and enemies, that live in constant ⟨p. 2⟩rapine or hostility. There were no Trust to be put in one another, further than self-interest did oblige men: Psal. 15. 1, 2. Lord who shall abide in thy Tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. Therefore the wicked and the enemies of Peace, and destroyers of Societies, are still described as Enemies to the upright: Psal. 11. 2, 3. For lo the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Job 12. 4. The just and upright man is laughed to scorn. Psal. 37. 14. The wicked have drawn out the sword, to slay such as be of upright conversation. And indeed it is for the uprights sake that societies are preserved by God, as Sodom might have been for ten Lots. At least they are under the protection of Omnipotency themselves. Isa. 33. 15, 16. He that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly, he that despiseth the gain of oppression, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ear from hearing of blood, that shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure; Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the Land that is very far off: Prov. •8. 10. The upright shall have good things in possession: Prov. 14. 11. The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.
2. The Upright are the Pillars of humane society, that keep up Truth and Iustice in the world; without whom it would be but a company of lyers, deceivers, robbers and enemies, that live in constant