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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.
Part 4 › Chapter 13 › Practical Directions against Offence and burt by others.
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Practical Directions against Offence and burt by others.
§. 18. Direct. 1. Lay well your foundation, and understand the nature and reasons of Religion: and1 then you will be so far from disliking it for the errors and falls of others, that it will be written upon your minds, as with a beam of the Sun, that There can be no reason against obeying God, and against the careful securing of our salvation. This will be the first and undoubted Principle, which nothing in the world can make you question. What ever scandals, persecutions or sufferings, may attend a holy life, you will still be past doubt, that there is no other way? No other eligible, no other tolerable, no other rational, or that will lead to happiness. What ever falls out in the world, if the most great, or learned, or religious fall away, it will not make you question, Whether a man be a living creature, nor whether the Sun be light, nor whether two and two be four. No more should it make you question, Whether God be better than the Creature, Heaven than earth, or a life of Holiness than a life of sin. You will say as Peter, Lord whither should we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. John 6. What ever scandals are given, or what ever befall the Church, or if all the Disciples of Christ forsake him, this remaineth as sure as that the earth is under us, that there is no other way than Holiness, for a wise man once to take into his thoughts.
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