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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 11: Directions about our Communion with the Holy Angels.
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.
§. 21. Direct. 8. When you would be apprehensive of the excellency of Love and Humility, and exact 1obedience t• the will of God, look up to the Angels, and see the lustre of all these virtues as they shine 2in them. How perfectly do they Love God and all his Saints? Even the weakest and meanest of the members of Christ? With what humility do they condescend to minister for the heirs of salvation? How readily and perfectly do they obey their Maker? Though our chiefest pattern is Christ himself, who came nearer to us, and appeared in flesh, to give us the example of all such duties, yet under him the example of Angels is also to be observed, and with pleasure to be imitated. And ask the enemies of Holiness, who urge you with the examples of the Great and Learned, whether they are wiser than all the Angels of God?
§. 21. Direct. 8. When you would be apprehensive of the excellency of Love and Humility, and exact 1obedience t• the will of God, look up to the Angels, and see the lustre of all these vertues as they shine 2in them. How perfectly do they Love God and all his Saints? Even the weakest and meanest of the members of Christ? With what humility do they condescend to minister for the heirs of salvation? How readily and perfectly do they obey their Maker? Though our chiefest pattern is Christ himself, who came nearer to us, and appeared in flesh, to give us the example of all such duties, yet under him the example of Angels is also to be observed, and with pleasure to be imitated. And ask the enemies of Holiness, who urge you with the examples of the Great and Learned, whether they are wiser than all the Angels of God?
- 1Direct. 8.
- 2Heb. 1. 14.