A26892:8666
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.
§. 6. Direct. 6. Take a fit season: Not when a man is in drink, or passion, or among others1 where the disgrace will vex and harden him: but in secret between him and you (if his conversion be your end).
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§. 7. Direct. 7. Do all in love and tender pity: If you convince not the hearer that you do it in unfeigned1 love, you must (usually) expect to lose your labour; because you make not advantage of2 his self-love, to promote your exhortations: Therefore the exhorting way should be more frequent than the reproving way: For reproof disgraceth and exasperateth, when the same thing contrived into an exhortation may prevail.
- 1Direct. 7.
- 22 Thess. 3. 15. 2 Cor. 2. 4. Gal. •. 1. 2 Tim. 2. 25. 1 Thess 5 13.