A26892:1665
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.
Answ. He cannot love that existent which existeth not. Nor doth he any further Will to give it them, th•n to Command it, and give them all necessary means and persuasions to it. But what if God make but one Sun? Will you say, that he hath no great Love to a Sun, that will make no more? What if he make no more Worlds? Doth that prove that he hath no great love to a world? He loveth the World, the Sun, and so the Saints, which he hath made. And he doth not so far love Suns, or Worlds, or Saints, as to make as many Suns, or Worlds, or Saints as foolish Wits would prescribe unto him. Our Question is, What Being God loveth, and we should most love, as being Best and Likest him, and not what he should give a Being to that is not.
Answ. He cannot love that existent which existeth not. Nor doth he any further Will to give it them, th•n to Command it, and give them all necessary means and perswasions to it. But what if God make but one Sun? Will you say, that he hath no great Love to a Sun, that will make no more? What if he make no more Worlds? Doth that prove that he hath no great love to a world? He loveth the World, the Sun, and so the Saints, which he hath made. And he doth not so far love Suns, or Worlds, or Saints, as to make as many Suns, or Worlds, or Saints as foolish Wits would prescribe unto him. Our Question is, What Being God loveth, and we should most love, as being Best and Likest him, and not what he should give a Being to that is not.
Object. 6. Holiness is but an Accident, and the person is the substance, and Better than the Accident: And Dr. Twi•s •ppugneth on such accounts the saying of Arminius, That God loveth Justice better than just men, because it is for Justice that he loveth them.
Object. 6. Holiness is but an Accident, and the person is the substance, and Better than the Accident: And Dr. Twi•s •ppugneth on such accounts the saying of Arminius, That God loveth Iustice better than just men, because it is for Iustice that he loveth them.