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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.
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XLVI. 1. A Christian indeed is faithful and laborious in his particular calling, and that not out of a covetous mind; but in obedience to God, and that he may maintain his Family, and be able to do good to others. For God hath said, In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat thy bread, Gen. 3.19. And six days shalt thou labour, Exod. 20.10. And with quietness men must work, and eat their own bread; and if any will not work, neither should he eat, 2 Thess. 3.10, 11, 12. Abraham and Noah and Adam laboured in a constant course of employment. He knoweth that a sanctified calling and labour is a help, and not a hinderance to devotion; and that the body must have work as well as the soul, and that Religion must not be pretended for slothful idleness, nor against obedience to our Masters will, Prov. 31.
XLVI. 1. A Christian indeed is faithfull and laborious in his particular calling, and that not out of a covetous minde; but in obedience to God, and that he may maintain his Family, and be able to do good to others. For God hath said, In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat thy bread, Gen. 3.19. And six dayes shalt thou labour, Exod. 20.10. And with quietness men must work, and eat their own bread; and if any will not work, neither should he eat, 2 Thess. 3.10, 11, 12. Abraham and Noah and Adam laboured in a constant course of imployment. He knoweth that a sanctified calling and labour is a help, and not a hinderance to devotion; and that the body must have work as well as the soul, and that Religion must not be pretended for slothfull idleness, nor against obedience to our Masters will, Prov. 31.