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THE
PRACTICAL WORKS
OF THE
REV. RICHARD BAXTER.
OF
THE REV. RICHARD BAXTER:
WITH
A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,
AND
A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF HIS WRITINGS,
BY THE
REV. WILLIAM ORME,
THE LIFE OF JOHN OWEN, D.D.;" "BIBLIOTHECA BIBLICA," ETC.
VOL. IX.
IN TWENTY-THREE VOLUMES.
LONDON:
JAMES DUNCAN, 37, PATERNOSTER ROW.
MDCCCXXX.
Direct. 1. Discover the true cause of your trouble
The continued necessity of a standing ministry
Direct. 2. Discover well how much of your trouble is from
melancholy, or from outward crosses, and apply the remedy
accordingly
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Direct. 3. Lay first in your understanding sound and deep ap-
prehensions of God's nature
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The benefits that arise from the apprehensions of God's good-
ness...
ibid.
Direct. 4. Get deep apprehensions of the gracious nature and
office of the Mediator . .
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Direct. 5. Believe and consider the full sufficiency of Christ's
sacrifice and ransom for all.
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Direct. 6. Apprehend the freeness, fulness and universality of
the law of grace, or conditional grant of pardon and salva-
tion to all men, if they will repent and believe.
Direct. 7. Understand the difference between general grace
and special, and between the possibility, probability, con-
ditional certainty, and absolute certainty of your salvation, and so between the several degrees of comfort that these severals may afford
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How much comfort the unconverted may receive from gene-
ral grace
Direct. 8. Understand rightly the true nature of saving faith
Direct. 9. Next, perform the condition by actual believing
Object. I am not able to believe; answered
Direction how to get faith.
How far the prayers of the wicked are acceptable.
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