A26892:1544
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.
26. Yet as it may be subordinately From man, as the Principle of his own Actions, and By man as a subordinate Ruler of himself or others, and To man as a subordinate End; so there is accordingly a subordinate sort of Goodness, which is so denominated from these respects unto the Creature, that is himself Good, subordinately;
27. But all this subordinate Goodness (Bonum à nobis, Bonum per nos, Bonum nobis) is but Analogically so; and dependently on the former sort of Goodness, and is something in due subordination to it and against it, nothing, that is, not properly Good.
27. But all this subordinate Goodness (Bonum à nobis, Bonum per nos, Bonum nobis) is but Analogically so; and dependantly on the former sort of Goodness, and is something in due subordination to it and against it, nothing, that is, not properly Good.
28. The best and excellentest Creatures, in the foresaid Goodness-related to God, are most to be loved; and all according to the Degree of their Goodness more than as Good in relation to our selves.
29. But seeing their Goodness is formally their Relation unto God it followeth that they are Loved […] only for his sake, and consequently Gods Image or Glory in them is first Loved; and so the true Love of any Creature is but a secondary sort of the Love of God.