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Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up to a confirmed state of grace…
Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up to a confirmed state of grace with motives opening the lamentable effects of their weaknesses and distempers / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1669
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THE CHARACTER OF 1 A Sound Confirmed Christian, 2 And of the Weak C… › The Characters.
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.
III. 1. A Christian indeed, is not only confirmed in the essentials of Christianity, but he hath a clear delightful sight of those useful truths, which are the Integrals of Christianity, and are built upon the fundamentals, and are the branches of the master-points of Faith. Though he see not all the lesser Truths (which are branched out at last into innumerable particles) yet he seeth the main body of sacred Verities, delivered by Christ for mans sanctification; and seeth them methodically in their proper places; and seeth how one supports another, and in how beautiful an order and contexture they are placed: And as he sticketh not in the bare Principles, so he receiveth all these additions of knowledge, not notionally only, but practically, as the food on which his Soul must live. Heb. 5.13, 14. & 6.1, 2, &c. Matth. 13.11. Eph. 1.18. & 3.18, 19. Joh. 13.17.
III. 1. A Christian indeed, is not only confirmed in the essentials of Christianity, but he hath a cleer delightful sight of those usefull truths, which are the Integrals of Christianity, and are built upon the fundamentals, and are the branches of the master-points of Faith. Though he see not all the lesser Truths (which are branched out at last into innumerable particles) yet he seeth the main body of sacred Verities, delivered by Christ for mans sanctification; and seeth them methodically in their proper places; and seeth how one supports another, and in how beautifull an order and contexture they are placed: And as he sticketh not in the bare Principles, so he receiveth all these additions of knowledge, not notionally only, but practically, as the food on which his Soul must live. Heb. 5.13, 14. & 6.1, 2, &c.