A26892:1565
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
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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.
48. The LORD JESUS CHRIST in his Glorified Created Nature, is Crowned with the highest excellency of any particular Creature; that he might be the MEDIATOR OF OUR LOVE to God; and in him (seen by faith) we might see the GLORY of the Deity. And as in Heaven we shall have (spiritual Glorified) Bodies, as well as Souls, so the Glorified Created Nature of Christ, will be an Objective Glory fit for our Bodies (at least) to behold in order to their Glory, as the Divine Nature (as it pleaseth God in Glory) revealed, will be to the soul.
49. The exercise of our Love upon God as now appearing to the glorified, in the glorious created nature of CHRIST, (beheld by us by faith) is a great part of our present exercise of Divine Love: And we extinguish our Love to GOD, by beholding so little by faith, our glorified Mediator.