A26892:2462
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.
§. 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!
§. 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 magnetick 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!
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§. 46. Inst. 8. Yea, many would separate God from God, while they would separate God from Heaven, 1and say that we must be content to be shut out of Heaven for the Love of God! When our Heaven is the perfect Love of God: And so they say in effect, that for the Love of God we must be content to be shut out from the Love of God.
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