A26892:7961
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.
The chief means for Rulers to become thus Holy and exemplary is, 1. To hearken to the doctrine and counsel of the Word of the Lord, and to meditate in it day and night, Josh. 1. 3, 4. Deut. 17. 18, 19, 20. And to have faithful, holy and self-denying Teachers, 2 Chron. 20. 20. 2. To beware of the company and counsels of the wicked. Prov. 25. 4, 5. Take away the wicked from before the King, and his Throne shall be established in Righteousness. 3. To watch most carefully against the special temptations of their great places, especially against sensuality and Pride, and preferring their own Honour, and Interest and Will, before the Honour and Interest and Will of Jesus Christ. Eccles. 10. 16, 17. Woe to thee O Land, when thy King is a Child, and thy Princes eat in the morning: Blessed art thou O Land, when thy King is the Son of Nobles, and thy Princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness. It is an abomination to Kings to commit wickedness: for the Throne is established by Righteousness, Prov. 16. 12. 4. To remember always the End of Holiness. How sure a way it is to Glory hereafter, and to leave a sweet and glorious name and memorial upon earth; when wickedness is the certain way to shame on earth, and misery for ever.
The chief means for Rulers to become thus Holy and exemplary is, 1. To hearken to the doctrine and counsel of the Word of the Lord, and to meditate in it day and night, Iosh. 1. 3, 4. Deut. 17. 18, 19, 20. And to have faithful, holy and self-denying Teachers, 2 Chron. 20. 20. 2. To beware of the company and counsels of the wicked.