A26892:1451
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§. 14. Direct. 12. Look on earthly and present Mercies in connection with Heaven which is their End, and 1as sweetened by our interest in God that giveth them. You leave out all the life and sweetness, which must cause your, thankfulness, if you leave out God and overlook him. A dead carcass hath not the Loveliness or Usefulness ⟨p. 170⟩as a living man: You mortify your mercies, when you separate them from God and Heaven, and then their beauty, and sweetness, and excellency is gone: And how can you be thankful for the husks and shells when you foolishly neglect the kernel? Take every bit as from thy Fathers hands: Remember that he feedeth, and clotheth, and protecteth thee, as his Child: It is to Our Father which is in Heaven, that we must go every day for our daily bread. Taste his Love in it, and thou wilt say, that It is sweet. Remember whither all his Mercies tend, and where they will leave thee, even in the bosom of Eternal Love. Think with thy self, How good is this with the Love of God? This and Heaven are full enough for me. Course fare, and course clothing, and course usage in the world, and hard labour, and a poor habitation, with Heaven after all, is Mercy beyond all humane estimation or conceiving. Nothing can be little, which is a token of the love of God, and leadeth to Eternal Glory. The Relation to Heaven, is the life and glory of every mercy.
§. 14. Direct. 12. Look on earthly and present Mercies in connexion with Heaven which is their End, and 1as sweetned by our interest in God that giveth them. You leave out all the life and sweetness, which must cause your, thankfulness, if you leave out God and overlook him. A dead cark•ss hath not the Loveliness or Usefulness ⟨p. 170⟩as a living man: You mortifie your mercies, when you separate them from God and Heaven, and then their beauty, and sweetness, and excellercy is gone: And how can you be thankful for the husks and shells when you foolishly neglect the kernel? Take every bit as from thy Fathers hands: Remember that he feedeth, and clotheth, and protecteth thee, as his Child: It is to Our Father which is in Heaven, that we must go every day for our daily bread. Taste his Love in it, and thou wilt say, that It is sweet. Remember whither all his Mercies tend, and where they will leave thee, even in the bosome of Eternal Love. Think with thy self, How good is this with the Love of God? This and Heaven are full enough for me. Course fare, and course clothing, and course usage in the world, and hard labour, and a poor habitation, with Heaven after all, is Mercy beyond all humane estimation or conceiving. Nothing can be little, which is a token of the love of God, and leadeth to Eternal Glory. The Relation to Heaven, is the life and glory of every mercy.