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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.
3. Uprightness affordeth Peace of Conscience, and quietness and holy security to the soul. This was Pauls rejoicing, the testimony of his conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity he had had his conversation in the world, and not in fleshly wisdom, 2 Cor. 1. 12. And this was Davids comfort, 2 Sam. 22. 22, 23, 24. For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God: For all his judgements were before me, and as for his Statutes I did not depart from them. I was also upright before him, and have kept my self from mine iniquity. Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness,—with the merciful thou wilt show thy self merciful, and with the upright thou wilt show thy self upright: Yea, peace is too little; exceeding joy is the portion, and most beseeming condition of the upright. Psal. 32. 11. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice ye righteous, and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart, Psal. 33. 1. Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous, for praise is comely for the upright, Psal. 64. 10. The righteous shall be glad in the Lord, and trust in him, and all the upright in heart shall glory. Psal. 97. 11. Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. The Spirit that sanctifieth them, will comfort them.
3. Uprightness affordeth Peace of Conscience, and quietness and holy security to the soul. This was Pauls rejoycing, the testimony of his conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity he had had his conversation in the world, and not in fleshly wisdom, 2 Cor. 1. 12. And this was Davids comfort, 2 Sam. 22. 22, 23, 24. For I have kept the wayes of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God: For all his judgements were before me, and as for his Statutes I did not depart from them. I was also upright before him, and have kept my self from mine iniquity. Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness,—with the merciful thou wilt shew thy self merciful, and with the upright thou wilt shew thy self upright: Yea, peace is too little; exceeding joy is the portion, and most beseeming condition of the upright.