A26892:1635
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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101. Though Faith it self is not wrought in us without the Holy Ghost, nor is it (if sincere) a common gift, yet this operation of the spirit drawing us to Christ, by such arguments and means as are fitted to the work of believing, is different from the Consequent Covenant-right to Christ and the spirit which is given to Believers, and from the spirit of Adoption as recovering us as aforesaid to the Love of God.
102. In this last sense it is that the Holy Ghost is said to dwell in Believers, and to be the new name, the pledge, the earnest, the first fruits of life eternal, the witness of our right to Christ and life, and Christs agent and witness in us to maintain his cause and interest.
102. In this last sense it is that the Holy Ghost is said to dwell in Believers, and to be the new name, the pledge, the earness, the first fruits of life eternal, the witness of our right to Christ and life, and Christs agent and witness in us to maintain his cause and interest.
103. Even as a man that by sickness hath lost his Appetite to meat, is told that such a physician will cure him, if he will take a certain medicinal food that he will give him; And at first he taketh it without appetite to the food or medicine in it self, but merely for the Love of health: but after he is doubly brought to Love it for it self; First, because he hath tasted the sweetness of that which he did but see before, and next because his health and appetite is recovered: so is it with the soul as to the Love of God procured by believing: When we have tasted through the persuasion of self-love, our taste and recovery cause us to Love God for himself.
103. Even as a man that by sickness hath lost his Appetite to meat, is told that such a physicion will cure him, if he will take a certain medicinal food that he will give him; And at first he taketh it without appetite to the food or medicine in it self, but meerly for the Love of health: but after he is doubly brought to Love it for it self; First, because he hath tasted the sweetness of that which he did but see before, and next because his health and appetite is recovered: so is it with the soul as to the Love of God procured by believing: When we have tasted through the perswasion of self-love, our tast and recovery cause us to Love God for himself.