A26892:2461
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.
§. 44. Inst. 6. Many separate General and special Grace and Redemption, as inconsistent, when they1 are conjunct! When the General is the proper way and means of accomplishing the ends of the special Grace; and is still supposed: As if God could not give more to some, if he give any thing to all! Or as if he gave nothing to all, if he give more to any! As if he could not deal equally and without difference with all as a Legislator, and righteously with all as a Judge, unless he deal equally and without difference with all as a Benefactor in the free distribution of his gifts! As if he were obliged to make every Worm and Beast a man, and every man a King, and every King an Angel, and every Clod a Star, and every Star a Sun!
§. 44. Inst. 6. Many separate General and special Grace and Redemption, as inconsistent, when they1 are conjunct! When the General is the proper way and means of accomplishing the ends of the special Grace; and is still supposed: As if God could not give more to some, if he give any thing to all! Or as if he gave nothing to all, if he give more to any! As if he could not deal equally and without difference with all as a Legislator, and righteously with all as a Iudge, unless he deal equally and without difference with all as a Benefactor in the free distribution of his gifts! As if he were obliged to make every Worm and Beast a man, and every man a King, and every King an Angel, and every Clod a Star, and every Star a Sun!
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§. 45. Inst. 7. Many separate the Glory of God and mans salvation, God and man, in assigning the1 ultimate End of man! As if a Moral Intention might not take in both! As if it were not finis amantis! and the end of a Lover were not union in Mutual Love! As if Love to God may not be for ever the final act, and God himself the final object! And as if in this magnetic closure, though both may be called the End, yet there might not in the closing parties, be an infinite disproportion, and one only be finis ultimate ultimus!