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A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
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§. 17. Direct. 15. Make use of affliction as a great advantage for your purest and unmixed delight in 1God. The servants of Christ have usually never so much of the joy in the Holy Ghost, as in their greatest sufferings: especially if they be for his sake. The soul never retireth so readily and delightfully to God, as when it hath no one else that will receive it, or that it can take any comfort from. ⟨p. 166⟩God comforteth us most, when he hath made us see that none else can or will relieve us. When all friends have forsaken us save only one, that one is sweeter to us then than ever. When all our house is ••red down except one room, that room is pleasanter to us than it was before. He that hath lost one eye, will love the other better than before. In prosperity our Delights in God are too often corrupted by a mixture of sensual delight: But all that remaineth when the creature is gone is purely Divine.
§. 17. Direct. 15. Make use of affliction as a great advantage for your purest and unmixt delight in 1God. The servants of Christ have usually never so much of the joy in the Holy Ghost, as in their greatest sufferings: especially if they be for his sake. The soul never retireth so readily and delightfully to God, as when it hath no one else that will receive it, or that it can take any comfort from. ⟨p. 166⟩God comforteth us most, when he hath made us see that none else can or will relieve us. When all friends have forsaken us save only one, that one is sweeter to us then than ever. When all our house is ••red down except one room, that room is pleasanter to us than it was before. He that hath lost one eye, will love the other better than before. In prosperity our Delights in God are too often corrupted by a mixture of sensual delight: But all that remaineth when the creature is gone is purely Divine.
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