A26892:1566
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.
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.
50. We owe greater Love to ANGELS than to Men, because they are Better, nearer God and liker to him, and more demonstrate his Glory: and indeed also Love us better, and do more for us, than we can do for one another. And the neglect of our due Love and Gratitude to Angels, and forgetting our relation to them, and receivings by them, and communion with them, and living as if we had little to do with them, is a culpable overlooking God, as he appeareth in his most noble creatures, and is a neglect of our Love to God in them, and a great hinderance to our higher more immediate Love. Therefore by Faith and Love we should exercise a daily converse with Angels, as part of our heavenly conversation, Phil. 3. 20, 21. Heb. 12. 22. and use our selves to Love God in them: Though not to pray to them, or give them Divine Worship.