A26892:793
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.
§. 1. Though I did before speak of our Believing in the Holy Ghost, and using his help for our access to God, and converse with him; yet I deferred to speak fully of the Cleansing and Mortifying part of his work of Sanctification till now; and shall treat of it here as it is the same with the Curing work of Christ, related to us as the Physician of our souls: it being part of our Subjection and Obedience to him, to be Ruled by him in order to our cure. And what I shall here write against sin in general will be of a twofold use. The one is to help us against the inward corruptions of our hearts, and for the outward obedience of our lives, and so to further the work of Sanctification, and prevent our sinning. The other is to help us to Repentance and Humiliation habitual and actual, for the sins which are in us, and which we have already at any time committed.
§. 1. THough I did before speak of our Believing in the Holy Ghost, and using his help for our access to God, and converse with him; yet I deferred to speak fully of the Cleansing and Mortifying part of his work of Sanctification till now; and shall treat of it here as it is the same with the Curing work of Christ, related to us as the Physicion of our souls: it being part of our Subjection and Obedience to him, to be Ruled by him in order to our cure. And what I shall here write against sin in general will be of a twofold use. The one is to help us against the inward corruptions of our hearts, and for the outward obedience of our lives, and so to further the work of Sanctification, and prevent our sinning. The other is to help us to Repentance and Humiliation habitual and actual, for the sins which are in us, and which we have already at any time committed.
§. 2. The General Directions for this curing and cleansing of the soul from sin, are contained for the most part in what is said already; and many of the particular Directions also may be fetched from the sixth Direction before going. I shall now add but two General Directions, and many more Particular ones.
§. 2. The General Directions for this curing and cleansing of the soul from sin, are contained for the most part in what is said already; and many of the particular Directions also may be fetcht from the sixth Direction before going. I shall now add but two General Directions, and many more Particular ones.