-- PART VI Directions against sinful Excess of Sleep
A Christian Directory Part I: Christian Ethics by Richard Baxter
Table of Contents
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THE Introduction
CHAPTER I: DIRECTIONS TO UNCONVERTED, GRACELESS
SINNERS, FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF SAVING GRACE
-- PART I: What is presupposed in the reader of these -- Directions -- PART II: Thirty Temptations whereby the Devil hindereth Men's
Conversion, with the proper Remedies against them
CHAPTER II: DIRECTIONS TO WEAK CHRISTIANS FOR THEIR
ESTABLISHMENT AND GROWTH
-- Direct. I. Against receiving Religion merely for the novelty or reputation of it -- Direct. II. Let Judgment, Zeal, and Practice go equally together
-- Direct. III. Keep a short Method of Divinity, or a Catechism still in your memory -- Direct. IV. Certain Cautions about Controversies in Religion. Heb.
6:1. opened -- Direct. V. Think not too highly of your first degrees of Grace or Gifts. Time and diligence are necessary to growth. How the Spirit doth illuminate. The danger of this sin -- Direct. VI. Let neither Difficulties nor Oppositions, in the beginning, discourage you. Reasons -- Direct. VII. Value, and use a powerful, faithful Ministry. Reasons.
Objections answered -- Direct. VIII. For Charity, Unity, and Catholicism, against Schism.
Pretences for Schism confuted -- Direct. IX. Let not Sufferings make you sin by passion, or dishonouring authority -- Direct. X. Take heed of running from one extreme into another
-- Direct. XI. Be not too confident in your first apprehensions or opinions, but modestly suspicious of them
-- Direct. XII. What to do when Controversies divide the Church. Of silencing Truth -- Direct. XIII. What Godliness is.
-- Direct. XIV. Mortify the Flesh, and rule the Senses, and the Appetite
-- Direct. XV. Be wary in choosing not only your Teachers, but your Company also. Their characters -- Direct. XVI. What Books to prefer and read, and what to reject
-- Direct. XVII. Take not a doctrine of Libertinism for Free Grace -- Direct. XVIII. Take heed lest Grace degenerate into Counterfeits,
Formality, &c.
-- Direct. XIX. Reckon not on Prosperity or long life; but live as dying -- Direct. XX. See that your Religion be purely Divine. That God be your First, and Last, and All: Man nothing
CHAPTER III:
THE GENERAL GRAND
DIRECTIOS
FOR
WALKING WITH GOD, IN THE LIFE OF FAITH AND HOLINESS:
CONTAINING
THE
ESSENTIALS
GODLINESSS
AND
CHRISTIANITY
-- Grand Direct. I. Understand well the Nature, Grounds, Reason, and Order of Faith and Godliness.
-- Grand Direct. II. How to live by Faith on Christ. How to make use of Christ, in Twenty Necessities -- Grand Direct. III. How to believe in the Holy Ghost, and live by his
Grace. His Witness, Seal, Earnest, &c. Q. When good Effects are from Means; from our Endeavour, and when from the Spirit?
-- Grand Direct. IV. For a true, orderly, and practical Knowledge of God. A Scheme of his Attributes
-- Grand Direct. V. Of Self-Resignation to God as our Owner.
Motives, Marks, Means -- Grand Direct. VI. Of Subjection to God as our Sovereign King.
What it is? How to bring the soul into subjection to God. How to keep up a ready and constant obedience to him
-- Grand Direct. VII. To learn of Christ as our Teacher. How? The Imitation of Christ -- Grand Direct. VIII. To obey Christ our Physician or Saviour, in his repairing, healing work -- Grand Direct. IX. Of the Christian Warfare under Christ.
-- Grand Direct. X. How to work as servants to Christ our Lord. The true doctrine of Good Works -- Grand Direct. XI. To Love God as our Father, and Felicity, and End
-- Grand Direct. XII. Absolutely to trust God with soul, body, and all, with full acquiescence.
-- Grand Direct. XIII. That the Temperament of our Religion may be a Delight in God and Holiness. Twenty Directions to procure it: with the Reasons of it -- Grand Direct. XIV. Of Thankfulness to God, our Grand Benefactor.
The Signs of it. Eighteen Directions how to obtain and exercise it -- Grand Direct. XV. For Glorifying God. Ten Directions how the Mind must Glorify God. Ten Directions for Praising God, or Glorifying him with our Tongues. Where are the Reasons for Praising
God. Twelve Directions for Glorifying God by our Lives
-- Grand Direct. XVI. For Heavenlymindedness -- Grand Direct. XVII. For Self-denial. Only named, as being formerly written of at large An Appendix of the Reasons and Measure of Divine and Self-Love
CHAPTER IV: SUBORDINATE DIRECTIONS AGAINS THOSE
GRAND HEART-SINS, WHICH ARE DIRECTLY CONTRARY TO
THE LIFE OF GODLINESS AND CHRISTIANITY
-- PART I: Directions against Unbelief.
-- PART II: Directions against Hardness of Heart. What it is. The Evil and Danger of it -- PART III: Directions against Hypocrisy. What it is; and who are
Hypocrites. The Helps -- PART IV: Directions against inordinate Man-pleasing, or Idolizing
Man -- PART V: Directions against Pride, and for Humility -- PART VI: Directions against Covetousness, Love of Riches, and Worldly Cares -- PART VII: Directions against the Master Sin: Sensuality, Fleshpleasing, or Voluptuousness
CHAPTER V: FURTHER SUBORDINATE DIRECTIONS FOR THE
NEXT GREAT DUTIES OF RELIGION; NECESSARY TO THE
RIGHT PERFORMANCE OF THE GRAND DUTIES.
Directions for Redeeming as well as Improving Time.
-- Tit. 1. Directions Contemplative for improving Time -- Tit. 2. Directions Contemplative for taking the due season
-- Tit. 3. Directions Practical for improving Time -- Tit. 4. Thieves Or Time-wasters to be watched against -- Tit. 5. On whom the Duty of redeeming Time is principally incumbent. Eight sorts especially called to redeem Time
CHAPTER VI: DIRECTIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
THOUGHTS -- Tit. 1. Directions against Evil and Idle Thoughts -- Tit. 2. Directions to furnish the Mind with Good Thoughts.
-- Tit. 3. Directions to make Good Thoughts Effectual -- Tit. 4. The difference between a Contemplative and an Active Life.
-- Tit. 5. Directions to the Melancholy about their Thoughts. Signs of Melancholy. The Causes. Directions for Cure.
-- Tit. 6. Twenty Directions for young Students for the most profitable ordering of their studying Thoughts
CHAPTER VII: DIRECTIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
PASSIONS.
-- Tit. 1. Directions against all sinful Passions in general -- Tit. 2. Directions against sinful Love of Creatures
-- Tit. 3. Directions against sinful Desires and Discontents -- Tit. 4. Directions against sinful Mirth and Pleasure
-- Tit. 5. Directions against sinful Hopes -- Tit. 6. Directions against sinful Hatred, Aversion, or Backwardness towards God and Godliness -- Tit. 7. Directions against sinful Anger
-- Tit. 8. Directions against sinful Fear -- Tit. 9. Directions against sinful Grief and Trouble of Mind
-- Tit. 10. Directions against sinful Despair and Doubting.
CHAPTER VIII: DIRECTIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
SENSES.
-- PART I: General Directions to Govern them all by Faith -- PART II: -- Particular Directions for the Government of the Eyes
-- PART III: Directions for the Government of the Ear -- PART IV: Directions for the Governing the Taste and Appetite
-- PART V: Fornication -- PART VI Directions against sinful Excess of Sleep -- PART VII: Directions against Sinful Dreams
CHAPTER IX: DIRECTIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
TONGUE
-- Tit. 1. The General Directions. The Moment of it. The Duties of the Tongue. Thirty Tongue Sins. The Cure -- Tit. 2. Directions against profane Swearing, and using God's name unreverently and in vain -- Tit. 3. Directions against Lying and Dissembling
-- Tit. 4. Directions against Idle Talk and Babbling.
-- Tit. 5. Directions against Filthy, Ribald, Scurrilous Talk -- Tit. 6. Directions against Profane Deriding, Scorning, or Opposing
Godliness
CHAPTER X: DIRECTIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
BODY -- PART I: Directions about our Labour and Callings -- Tit. 1. Directions for the right choice of our Labours or Callings.
-- Tit. 2. Directions against Sloth and Idleness. What it is, and what not.
-- Tit. 3. Directions against Sloth and Laziness in things spiritual, and for Zeal and Diligence.
-- PART II: Directions against Sin in Sports and Recreations -- PART III: Directions about Apparel, and against the sin therein committed