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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 3 › Chapter 10: Directions about our Communion with Holy Souls Departed, and now with Christ.
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.
§. 12. Direct. 12. When you are tempted to think meanly of the Kingdom of Christ, as if his flock were 1so small and poor and sinful as to be inconsiderable, look up to the world of blessed souls which dwell above. And there you shall see no such paucity, or imperfections, or blemishes as are here below: The Subjects there are such as dishonour not their King. Christs Kingdom is not of this world, Joh. 18. 36. If you would know it in its Glory, look up to the world where it is Glorious. If when you hear men contemn the Kingdom of the Saints of Christ, and at the same time did but see, (as Stephen did) a glimpse into that Kingdom, and all the Glory of the blessed there, what thoughts would you have of the words which did dishonour it?
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§. 13. Direct. 13. When you hear sinners boast of the Wisdom or Numbers of their party, and appealing 1to the learned or great ones of the world, look up to the blessed souls with Christ, and ask whether they are not more wise and numerous than all the sinners upon earth. The greatest Doctors are ignorant and unlearned, in comparison of the meanest soul with Christ: The greatest Monarchs are but worms, in comparison of the Glorified Spirits with God. If they say to you, Are you wiser than so many and so wise and Learned men? ask them, Are you or all the ungodly wiser, than all the blessed souls with Christ? Let the wiser party carry it.
- 1Direct. 13.