A26892:1563
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.
45. Whether the GLORY of God in HEAVEN which will for ever beatify the beholders and possessors, be the Divine Essence (which is every where) or a Created Glory purposely there placed for the felicity of holy spirits, and what that Glory is, are questions fittest for the beholders and possessors to resolve.
45. Whether the GLORY of God in HEAVEN which will for ever beatifie the beholders and possessors, be the Divine Essence (which is every where) or a Created Glory purposely there placed for the felicity of holy spirits, and what that Glory is, are questions fittest for the beholders and possessors to resolve.
46. But if it be no more than the Universal existent frame of Nature, Containing all the Creatures of God, beheld uno intuitu in the Nature, order and use of all the parts, it would be an unconceivable felicity to the beholders, as being an unconceivable Glorious Demonstration of the Deity▪
46. But if it be no more than the Universal existent frame of Nature, Containing all the Creatures of God, beheld uno intuitu in the Nature, order and use of all the parts, it would be an unconceivable felicity to the beholders, as being an unconceivable Glorious Demonstation of the Deity▪
47. It is lawful and a needful duty, to labour by the means of such excellencies as we now know, which Heaven is resembled to in Scripture, to imprint upon our Imaginations themselves, such an image of the GLORY of the Heavenly Society, CHRIST, ANGELS, SAINTS, and the HEAVENLY PLACE and STATE, as shall help our Intellectual apprehensions of the Spiritual Excellencies which transcend imagination. And the neglect of Loving God as foreseen in the Demonstration of the Heavenly GLORY, doth greatly hinder our Love to him immediately as in himself considered.