A26892:1523
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.
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?
6. But yet one is predominant in some persons, and the other in others.
7. Love is the Complacency of the Appetite in apprehended Good. Good is the formal Object of Love. Sensitive Love is the complacency of the sensitive appetite in sensible Good, (or in that which the Sense and Imagination apprehendeth as Good). Rational Love is the Complacency of the Rational Appetite in that which Reason apprehendeth Good: The same thing with Primary Volition.
7. Love is the Complacencie of the Appetite in apprehended Good. Good is the formal Object of Love. Sensitive Love is the complacencie of the sensitive appetite in sensible Good, (or in that which the Sence and Imagination apprehendeth as Good). Rational Love is the Complacencie of the Rational Appetite in that which Reason apprehendeth Good: The same thing with Primary Volition.