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A Christian Directory, Part 1: Christian Ethics

Richard Baxter

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Chapters 89
  1. -- PART VI Directions against sinful Excess of Sleep ≈ 10 min
  2. ADVERTISEMENT ≈ 33 min
  3. Part I ≈ 7 min
  4. -- PART I: What is presupposed in the reader of these -- Directions ≈ 178 min
  5. -- PART II: Thirty Temptations whereby the Devil hindereth Men's Conversion, with the proper Remedi ≈ 85 min
  6. -- Direct. I. Against receiving Religion merely for the novelty or reputation of it ≈ 19 min
  7. -- Direct. II. Let Judgment, Zeal, and Practice go equally together ≈ 8 min
  8. -- Direct. III. Keep a short Method of Divinity, or a Catechism still in your memory ≈ 5 min
  9. -- Direct. IV. Certain Cautions about Controversies in Religion. Heb. 6:1. opened ≈ 10 min
  10. -- Direct. V. Think not too highly of your first degrees of Grace or Gifts. Time and diligence are ≈ 18 min
  11. -- Direct. VI. Let neither Difficulties nor Oppositions, in the beginning, discourage you. Reasons ≈ 13 min
  12. -- Direct. VII. Value, and use a powerful, faithful Ministry. Reasons. Objections answered ≈ 17 min
  13. -- Direct. VIII. For Charity, Unity, and Catholicism, against Schism. Pretences for Schism confuted ≈ 16 min
  14. -- Direct. IX. Let not Sufferings make you sin by passion, or dishonouring authority ≈ 8 min
  15. -- Direct. X. Take heed of running from one extreme into another ≈ 5 min
  16. -- Direct. XI. Be not too confident in your first apprehensions or opinions, but modestly suspiciou ≈ 7 min
  17. -- Direct. XII. What to do when Controversies divide the Church. Of silencing Truth ≈ 14 min
  18. -- Direct. XIII. What Godliness is. ≈ 30 min
  19. -- Direct. XIV. Mortify the Flesh, and rule the Senses, and the Appetite ≈ 6 min
  20. -- Direct. XV. Be wary in choosing not only your Teachers, but your Company also. Their characters ≈ 13 min
  21. -- Direct. XVI. What Books to prefer and read, and what to reject ≈ 14 min
  22. -- Direct. XVII. Take not a doctrine of Libertinism for Free Grace ≈ 11 min
  23. -- Direct. XVIII. Take heed lest Grace degenerate into Counterfeits, Formality, &c. ≈ 14 min
  24. -- Direct. XIX. Reckon not on Prosperity or long life; but live as dying ≈ 12 min
  25. -- Direct. XX. See that your Religion be purely Divine. That God be your First, and Last, and All: ≈ 15 min
  26. -- Grand Direct. I. Understand well the Nature, Grounds, Reason, and Order of Faith and Godliness. ≈ 15 min
  27. -- Grand Direct. II. How to live by Faith on Christ. How to make use of Christ, in Twenty Necessitie ≈ 43 min
  28. -- Grand Direct. III. How to believe in the Holy Ghost, and live by his Grace. His Witness, Seal, Ea ≈ 28 min
  29. -- Grand Direct. IV. For a true, orderly, and practical Knowledge of God. A Scheme of his Attributes ≈ 10 min
  30. -- Grand Direct. V. Of Self-Resignation to God as our Owner. Motives, Marks, Means ≈ 14 min
  31. -- Grand Direct. VI. Of Subjection to God as our Sovereign King. What it is? How to bring the soul i ≈ 45 min
  32. -- Grand Direct. VII. To learn of Christ as our Teacher. How? The Imitation of Christ ≈ 39 min
  33. -- Grand Direct. VIII. To obey Christ our Physician or Saviour, in his repairing, healing work ≈ 72 min
  34. -- Grand Direct. IX. Of the Christian Warfare under Christ. ≈ 197 min
  35. -- Grand Direct. X. How to work as servants to Christ our Lord. The true doctrine of Good Works ≈ 104 min
  36. -- Grand Direct. XI. To Love God as our Father, and Felicity, and End ≈ 144 min
  37. -- Grand Direct. XII. Absolutely to trust God with soul, body, and all, with full acquiescence. ≈ 40 min
  38. -- Grand Direct. XIII. That the Temperament of our Religion may be a Delight in God and Holiness. Tw ≈ 42 min
  39. -- Grand Direct. XIV. Of Thankfulness to God, our Grand Benefactor. The Signs of it. Eighteen Direct ≈ 39 min
  40. -- Grand Direct. XV. For Glorifying God. Ten Directions how the Mind must Glorify God. Ten Direction ≈ 72 min
  41. -- Grand Direct. XVI. For Heavenlymindedness ≈ 4 min
  42. An Appendix of the Reasons and Measure of Divine and Self-Love ≈ 114 min
  43. CHAPTER IV: SUBORDINATE DIRECTIONS AGAINS THOSE GRAND HEART-SINS, WHICH ARE DIRECTLY CONTRARY TO THE ≈ 2 min
  44. -- PART I: Directions against Unbelief. ≈ 51 min
  45. -- PART II: Directions against Hardness of Heart. What it is. The Evil and Danger of it ≈ 47 min
  46. -- PART III: Directions against Hypocrisy. What it is; and who are Hypocrites. The Helps ≈ 65 min
  47. -- PART IV: Directions against inordinate Man-pleasing, or Idolizing Man ≈ 85 min
  48. -- PART V: Directions against Pride, and for Humility ≈ 211 min
  49. -- PART VI: Directions against Covetousness, Love of Riches, and Worldly Cares ≈ 81 min
  50. -- PART VII: Directions against the Master Sin: Sensuality, Flesh-pleasing, or Voluptuousness ≈ 78 min
  51. CHAPTER V: FURTHER SUBORDINATE DIRECTIONS FOR THE NEXT GREAT DUTIES OF RELIGION; NECESSARY TO THE R ≈ 14 min
  52. -- Tit. 1. Directions Contemplative for improving Time ≈ 65 min
  53. -- Tit. 2. Directions Contemplative for taking the due season ≈ 14 min
  54. -- Tit. 3. Directions Practical for improving Time ≈ 29 min
  55. -- Tit. 4. Thieves Or Time-wasters to be watched against ≈ 38 min
  56. -- Tit. 5. On whom the Duty of redeeming Time is principally incumbent. Eight sorts especially calle ≈ 12 min
  57. -- Tit. 1. Directions against Evil and Idle Thoughts ≈ 27 min
  58. -- Tit. 2. Directions to furnish the Mind with Good Thoughts. ≈ 57 min
  59. -- Tit. 3. Directions to make Good Thoughts Effectual ≈ 38 min
  60. -- Tit. 4. The difference between a Contemplative and an Active Life. ≈ 86 min
  61. -- Tit. 6. Twenty Directions for young Students for the most profitable ordering of their studying T ≈ 58 min
  62. -- Tit. 1. Directions against all sinful Passions in general ≈ 15 min
  63. -- Tit. 2. Directions against sinful Love of Creatures ≈ 21 min
  64. -- Tit. 3. Directions against sinful Desires and Discontents ≈ 28 min
  65. -- Tit. 4. Directions against sinful Mirth and Pleasure ≈ 19 min
  66. -- Tit. 5. Directions against sinful Hopes ≈ 8 min
  67. -- Tit. 6. Directions against sinful Hatred, Aversion, or Backwardness towards God and Godliness ≈ 13 min
  68. -- Tit. 7. Directions against sinful Anger ≈ 28 min
  69. -- Tit. 8. Directions against sinful Fear ≈ 57 min
  70. -- Tit. 9. Directions against sinful Grief and Trouble of Mind ≈ 34 min
  71. -- Tit. 10. Directions against sinful Despair and Doubting. ≈ 51 min
  72. CHAPTER VIII: DIRECTIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SENSES. ≈ 1 min
  73. -- PART I: General Directions to Govern them all by Faith ≈ 45 min
  74. -- PART II: -- Particular Directions for the Government of the Eyes ≈ 14 min
  75. -- PART III: Directions for the Government of the Ear ≈ 19 min
  76. -- PART IV: Directions for the Governing the Taste and Appetite ≈ 208 min
  77. -- PART V: Fornication ≈ 104 min
  78. -- PART VII: Directions against Sinful Dreams ≈ 7 min
  79. -- Tit. 1. The General Directions. The Moment of it. The Duties of the Tongue. Thirty Tongue Sins. T ≈ 53 min
  80. -- Tit. 2. Directions against profane Swearing, and using God's name unreverently and in vain ≈ 55 min
  81. -- Tit. 3. Directions against Lying and Dissembling ≈ 84 min
  82. -- Tit. 4. Directions against Idle Talk and Babbling. ≈ 51 min
  83. -- Tit. 5. Directions against Filthy, Ribald, Scurrilous Talk ≈ 7 min
  84. -- Tit. 6. Directions against Profane Deriding, Scorning, or Opposing Godliness ≈ 73 min
  85. -- PART I: Directions about our Labour and Callings ≈ 29 min
  86. -- Tit. 2. Directions against Sloth and Idleness. What it is, and what not. ≈ 42 min
  87. -- Tit. 3. Directions against Sloth and Laziness in things spiritual, and for Zeal and Diligence. ≈ 40 min
  88. -- PART II: Directions against Sin in Sports and Recreations ≈ 41 min
  89. -- PART III: Directions about Apparel, and against the sin therein committed ≈ 36 min
AuthorRichard Baxter
LanguageEnglish
Era1600s
CategoriesTheology · Puritans · Christian Classics
Length89 chapters · ≈ 63 h 51 min read
FormatsWeb Book · PDF
Status Public Domain

Public Domain.

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