A26892:1522
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.
4. Love is either merely sensitive and Passionate, which is the sensible Act and Passion of the sensitive and fantastical Appetite; Or it is Rational, which is the Act of the Rational appetite or will. The first is called sensitive in a double respect, 1. Because it followeth the Apprehension of the Senses, or Fantasy, Loving that which they apprehend as Good; 2. And because it is exercised passionately and feelingly by the sensitive Appetite. And the other is called Rational, 1. Because it is the Love of that which Reason apprehendeth as Good; and 2. Because it is the complacency of that will which is a higher faculty than the sensitive Appetite.
4. Love is either meerly sensitive and Passionate, which is the sensible Act and Passion of the sensitive and phantastical Appetite; Or it is Rational, which is the Act of the Rational appetite or will. The first is called sensitive in a double respect, 1. Because it followeth the Apprehension of the Senses, or Phantasie, Loving that which they apprehend as Good; 2. And because it is exercised passionately and feelingly by the sensitive Appetite. And the other is called Rational, 1. Because it is the Love of that which Reason apprehendeth as Good; and 2. Because it is the complacency of that will which is a higher faculty than the sensitive Appetite.
5. Sensitive Love is oft without Rational (Always in brutes) But Rational Love is never totally without sensitive, at least in this life; whether it be because that the sensitive and Rational •e faculties of the same soul, or because they are so nearly connected, as that one cannot here move or act without the other?
5. Sensitive Love is oft without Rational (Allwaies in bruits) But Rational Love is never totally without sensitive, at least in this life; whether it be because that the sensitive and Rational •e faculties of the same soul, or because they are so nearly connexed, as that one cannot here move or act without the other?