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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 16 › Section 1: Tit. 1. Motives to Christian Conference and Exhortation.
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§. 6. Mot. 6. Our faithfulness to God obligeth us to speak his praise, and to promote his truth, ••d plead his cause against iniquity. Hath he given us tongues to magnify his name, and set before us the admirable frame of all the World, to declare his Glory in? And shall we be backward to so sweet and great a work? How precious and useful is all his holy word? What light and life and comfort may it cause? And shall we bury it in silence? What company can we come into almost, where either the bare-faced committing of sin, or the defending it, or the opposition of truth or Godliness or the frigidity of mens hearts towards God, and supine neglect of holy things, do not call to us, if we are the servants of God, to take his part; and if we are the Children of light, to bear our testimony against the darkness of the World, and if we love God and truth and the souls of men, to show it by our prudent seasonable speech? Is he true to God and to his cause, that will not open his mouth to speak for him?
§. 6. Mot. 6. Our faithfulness to God obligeth us to speak his praise, and to promote his truth, ••d plead his cause against iniquity. Hath he given us tongues to magnifie his name, and set before us the admirable frame of all the World, to declare his Glory in? And shall we be backward to so sweet and great a work? How precious and useful is all his holy word? What light and life and comfort may it cause? And shall we bury it in silence? What company can we come into almost, where either the bare-faced committing of sin, or the defending it, or the opposition of truth or Godliness or the frigidity of mens hearts towards God, and supine neglect of holy things, do not call to us, if we are the servants of God, to take his part; and if we are the Children of light, to bear our testimony against the darkness of the World, and if we love God and truth and the souls of men, to sh•w it by our prudent seasonable speech? Is he true to God and to his cause, that will not open his mouth to speak for him?
§ 7. Mot. 7. And how precious a thing is an immortal soul, and therefore not to be neglected. Did Christ think souls to be worth his Mediation, by such strange condescension, even to a shameful death? Did he think them worth his coming into flesh, to be their teacher? And will you not think them worth the speaking to?