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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 1 › Chapter 3 › Direction 15 › Directions for the glorifying God in our Lives.
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.
§. 37. Direct. 6. When Christians live in a readiness to dye, and can rejoice in the approach of death, 1and l•ve and long for the ay of Judgement, when Christ shall justify them from the slanders of the wo•ld, and shall judge them to eternal joys: this is to the glory of God and our profession. When death which is the King of fears to others, appeareth as disarmed and conquered to believers: when Judgement which is the terror of others is their desire; this showeth a triumphant faith, and that godliness is not in vain. It must be something above nature that can make a man desire to depart and be with Christ as best of all, and to be absent from the body and present with the Lord, and to comfort one another with the mention of the glorious coming of their Lord, and the day when he shall judge the world in righteousness, Phil 1. 21. 2 Cor. 5. 8. 1 Thess. 4 18. & 2. 1, 10.
§. 37. Direct. 6. When Christians live in a readiness to dye, and can rejoyce in the approach of death, 1and l•ve and long for the ay of Iudgement, when Christ shall justifie them from the slanders of the wo•ld, and shall judge them to eterna• joyes: this is to the glory of God and our profession. When death which is the King of fears to others, appeareth as disarmed and conquered to believers: when Iudgement which is the terror of others is their desire; this sheweth a triumphant faith, and that godliness is not in vain. It must be something above nature that can make a man desire to depart and be with Christ as best of all, and to be absent from the body and present with the Lord, and to comfort one another with the mention of the glorious coming of their Lord, and the day when he shall judge the world in righteousness, Phil 1. 21.