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A Christian Directory, Part 1: Christian Ethics

Richard Baxter · Public domain text

541,194 words · about 37 h 54 min to read

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The text of A Christian Directory, Part 1: Christian Ethics comes from Project Gutenberg e-text #41633. It is in English and public domain in the United States. Project Gutenberg’s header and license text are removed, and RedLectern sets the text out for reading on screen; no words of the book are rewritten or summarized. More formats (EPUB, Kindle) · How RedLectern is built

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Contents (30)
  1. Opening about 1 h 26 min
  2. Part I about 6 min
  3. Part I about 1 h 41 min
  4. Part II about 1 h 3 min
  5. Chapter II about 2 h 28 min
  6. Chapter III (part 1 of 2) about 7 h 23 min
  7. Chapter III (part 2 of 2) about 1 h 11 min
  8. Appendix about 1 h 2 min
  9. Chapter IV about 2 min
  10. Part I about 28 min
  11. Part II about 26 min
  12. Part III about 36 min
  13. Part IV about 48 min
  14. Part V about 1 h 57 min
  15. Part VI about 44 min
  16. Part VII about 1 h 6 min
  17. Chapter V about 1 h 36 min
  18. VI. DIRECTIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE THOUGHTS about 2 h 28 min
  19. Chapter VII about 2 h 38 min
  20. Part I about 25 min
  21. Part II about 7 min
  22. Part III about 10 min
  23. Part IV about 1 h 54 min
  24. Part V about 44 min
  25. Part VI about 13 min
  26. Part VIII about 14 min
  27. IX. DIRECTIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE.[474] about 3 h 8 min
  28. Part I about 1 h 2 min
  29. Part II about 22 min
  30. Part III about 24 min

The opening of Part I

CHRISTIAN ETHICS:

OR,

DIRECTIONS FOR THE ORDERING OF THE PRIVATE ACTIONS OF OUR HEARTS AND
LIVES.
IN THE WORK OF HOLY SELF-GOVERNMENT, UNTO AND UNDER GOD.

THE INTRODUCTION.[6]

The eternal God having made man an intellectual and free agent, able to understand and choose the good, and refuse the evil; to know, and love, and serve his Maker, and by adhering to him in this life of trial, to attain to the blessed sight and enjoyment of his glory in the life to come, hath not been wanting to furnish him with such necessaries, without which these ends could not successfully be sought. When we had lost our moral capacity of pleasing him, that we might enjoy him, he restoreth us to it by the wonderful work of our redemption. In Christ he hath reconciled the world unto himself; and hath given them a general act of oblivion, contained in the covenant of grace, which nothing but men's obstinate and final unwillingness can deprive them of.

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