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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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§. 13. Direct. 1. The greatest of all means to cast out all sinful Love, is to keep the soul in the Love 1of God. Jud. 21. wholly taken up in admiring him, serving him, praising him and rejoicing in him: 2of which see Chap. 3. Dir. 11. we see that they that are taken up in the Love and Service of one person, are not apt to be taken much with any other. But it is not only by diversion, nor only by prepossessing and employing all our Love, that the Love of God doth cure sinful Love; but besides these there is also a Majesty in his objective presence which aweth the soul, and commandeth all things else to keep their distance: And there is an unspeakable splendour and excellency in him, which obscureth and annihilateth all things else: (though they are more near, and clearly seen and known.) And there is a celestial kind of sweetness in his Love, which puts the soul that hath tasted it out of relish, with transitory inferior go•d. As he that hath conversed with wise and learned men, will no more admire the wit of fools: And as he that hath been employed in the Government of a Kingdom or the sublimest studies, will be no more in love with Children's games and paddling in the dirt.
§. 13. Direct. 1. The greatest of all means to cast out all sinful Love, is to keep the soul in the Love 1of God. Jud. 21. wholly taken up in admiring him, serving him, praising him and rejoycing in him: 2of which see Chap. 3. Dir. 11. we see that they that are taken up in the Love and Service of one person, are not apt to be taken much with any other. But it is not only by diversion, nor only by prepossessing and employing all our Love, that the Love of God doth cure sinful Love; but besides these there is also a Majesty in his objective presence which aweth the soul, and commandeth all things else to keep their distance: And there is an unspeakable splendour and excellency in him, which obscureth and annihilateth all things else: (though they are more neer, and clearly seen and known.) And there is a celestial kind of sweetness in his Love, which puts the soul that hath tasted it out of relish, with transitory inferiour god. As he that hath conversed with wise and learned men, will no more admire the wit of fools: And as he that hath been employed in the Government of a Kingdom or the sublimest studies, will be no more in love with Childrens games and paddling in the dirt.