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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.
§. 40. Direct. 19. The substance of faith, and the Practice of Godliness must be valued above all opinions, 1and parties and worldly interests: And Godly men accounted, as they are, (caeteris paribus) the best members both of Church and State. If Rulers once knew the difference between a Saint and a sensualist, a vile person would be contemned in their eyes, and they would honour them that fear the Lord, Psal. 15. 4. And if they honoured them as God commandeth them, they would not persecute them: And if the promoting of practical Godliness were their design, there were little danger of their oppressing those that must be the instruments of propagating it, if ever it prosper in the World.
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§. 41. Direct. 20. To this end, Remember the near and dear relation which every true believer standeth 1in, to God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: They are called by God, his peculiar treasure, his jewels, 2his Children, the members of Christ, the Temples of the Holy Ghost; God dwelleth in them by Love, and Christ by faith, and the Spirit by all his sanctifying gifts: If this were well believed, men would more reverence them on Gods account, than causelessly to persecute them: Zech. 2. 8. He that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of my eye.
§. 41. Direct. 20. To this end, Remember the neer and dear relation which every true believer standeth 1in, to God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: They are called by God, his peculiar treasure, his jewels,