A26892:6362
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.
I will add no more: All this is proof enough that the spirit is not given radically or Immediately from God to any believer, but to Christ, and so derivatively from him to us. Not that the Divine nature in the third person is subject to the humane nature in Christ; But that God hath made it the office of our Mediators Glorified Humanity, to be the Cistern that shall▪ first receive the Waters of life, and convey them by the pipes of his appointed means to all the offices of his house: Or to be the Head of the Animal spirits, and by nerves to convey them to all the members.
3. We are much in the dark concerning the degree of Infants Glory: And therefore we can as little know, what degree of grace is necessary to prepare them for their Glory.
4. It is certain that Infants before they are Glorified, shall have all that Grace that is prerequisite to their preparation and fruition.
5. No sanctified person on earth is in an Immediate capacity for Glory: Because their sin and imperfection must be done away, which is done at the dissolution of soul and body. The very accession of the soul to God doth perfect it.