A26892:1526
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.
8. Good is not only a mans own Felicity and the means thereto, called mihi bonum, Good to me; either as profitable, pleasant or honourable (as some think that have unmanned themselves): But there is extrinsic Good which is such in it self, in others, or for others, which yet is the natural object of mans Love, (so far as nature is sound). As the Learning, and Wisdom, and Justice, and Charity, and all other perfections of a man at the antipodes whom I never saw, nor hope to see, or to receive any benefit by, is yet amiable to every man that hath not unmanned himself. So also is the Good of P•••••ity, of Countries, of Kingdoms, of the Church, of the World, apprehended as future when we are dead and gone; yea it we should be annihilated, desirable, and therefore amiable to us: When yet it could be no benefit to us.
8. Good is not only a mans own Felicity and the means thereto, called mihi bonum, Good to me; either as profitable, pleasant or honourable (as some think that have unmanned themselves): But there is extrinsick Good which is such in it self, in others, or for others, which yet is the natural object of mans Love, (so far as nature is sound). As the Learning, and Wisdom, and Justice, and Charity, and all other perfections of a man at the antipodes whom I never saw, nor hope to see, or to receive any benefit by, is yet amiable to every man that hath not unman'd himself. So also is the Good of P•••••ity, of Countries, of Kingdoms, of the Church, of the World, apprehended as future when we are dead and gone; yea it we should be annihilated, desirable, and therefore amiable to us: When yet it could be no benefit to us.
9. SELF-LOVE is Sensitive or Rational: Sensitive as such is necessary and not free; And it is purposely by the Most Wise and Blessed Creator planted in Man and Brutes, as a Principle useful to preserve the world, and to engage the Creature in the use of the means of its own preservation, and so to bring it to perfection, and to endue it with those fears and hopes which make us subjects capable of Moral Government: