A26892:1567
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.
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.
51. We must Love the glorified Saints more than the inhabitants of this lower world, because they are far better, and liker to God, and nearer to him, and more demonstrate his holiness and glory: And our neglect of conversing with them by faith, and of Loving them above our selves, and things on earth, is a neglect of our Love to God in them, and a hinderance of our more immediate Love: And a Loving Conversation with them by faith, would greatly help our higher Love to God.