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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.
§. 23. Direct. 10. When you are apt to be terrified with the fear of Devils, think then of the guard 1of Angels, and how much greater strength is for you than against you. Though God be our only fundamental security, and our chiefest confidence must be in him, yet experience telleth us how apt we are to look to instruments, and to be affected as second causes do appear to make for us or against us: Therefore when appearing dangers terrify us, appearing or secondary helps should be observed to comfort and encourage us.
§. 23. Direct. 10. When you are apt to be terrified with the fear of Devils, think then of the guard 1of Angels, and how much greater strength is for you than against you. Though God be our only fundamental security, and our chiefest confidence must be in him, yet experience telleth us how apt we are to look to instruments, and to be affected as second causes do appear to make for us or against us: Therefore when appearing dangers terrifie us, appearing or secondary helps should be observed to comfort and encourage us.
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§. 24. Direct. 11. Labour to answer the great and holy Love of Angels with such great and holy Love 1to them, as may help you against your unwillingness to dye, and make you long for the company of them 2whom you so much Love. And when death seemeth terrible to you because the world to come seems strange, remember that you are going to the society of those Angels, that rejoiced in your conversion, and ministered for you here on earth, and are ready to convoy your souls to Christ. Though the thoughts of God and our blessed Mediator should be the only final object to attract our Love, and make us long to be in Heaven, yet under Christ, the Love and company of Saints and Angels must be thought on to further our desire and delight: For even in Heaven God will not so be All to us, as to use no creature for our comfort: Otherwise the glorified humanity of Christ would be no means of our comfort there: And the heavenly Jerusalem would not then have been set out to us by its created excellencies as it is