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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Directions 1: DIRECTIONS TO THE CONVERTED, For their establishment, growth, and perseverance.
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.
Doct. [Those that have savingly Received Christ Jesus the Lord, must be so far from resting ⟨p. 11⟩here as if all were done, that they must spend the rest of their days in walking in him, being Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the Faith as the Apostles taught it, and abounding in it, especially with joyful praises to our Redeemer].
Doct. [Those that have savingly Received Christ Jesus the Lord, must be so far from resting ⟨p. 11⟩here as if all were done, that they must spend the rest of their dayes in walking in him, being Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the Faith as the Apostles taught it, and abounding in it, especially with joyful prayses to our Redeemer].
And because that my design is only to Direct young Christians how they may come to be established and confirmed in Christ, I shall therefore pass over all other things that the full handling of this Text requireth; and shall only give you 1. A short intimation here what this confirmation and stability is (which shall be fuller opened to you in the Directions). 2. And show you the need of seeking it. And 3. How you may attain it.
And because that my design is only to Direct young Christians how they may come to be established and confirmed in Christ, I shall therefore pass over all other things that the full handling of this Text requireth; and shall only give you 1. A short intimation here what this confirmation and stability is (which shall be fullyer opened to you in the Directions). 2. And shew you the need of seeking it. And 3. How you may attain it.