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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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§. 10. 7. Sometime the soul that would draw near to God, is overwhelmed with Grief and Terror, so that the sense of sin, and danger, and misery do even distract men, and cast them into an agony, so that they say with David, Psal. 77. 2, 3, 4. [My soul refused to be comforted, I remembered God and was troubled; I complained, and my Spirit was overwhelmed; Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.] Yea, they think they feel God thrust them from him, and tell them that he hath utterly forsaken them. In this case faith must look to Christ, and remember that He was in an Agony when he prayed, and in a greater agony than ever you were, so that he sweat even drops of blood, and yet in that agony he prayed more earnestly, Luke 22. 44. He himself once cried out upon the Cross, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me: and yet he was the Beloved of the Father, and is now at his right hand in glory: And all this he did that we might not be forsaken: He hath removed the enmity: He hath reconciled us to God: By grief he passed himself to joy, and he will wipe away, his servants tears, and cause their griefs to end in joy.
§. 10. 7. Sometime the soul that would draw near to God, is overwhelmed with Grief and Terror, so that the sense of sin, and danger, and misery do even distract men, and cast them into an agony, so that they say with David, Psal. 77. 2, 3, 4. [My soul refused to be comforted, I remembred God and was troubled; I complained, and my Spirit was overwhelmed; Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.] Yea, they think they feel God thrust them from him, and tell them that he hath utterly forsaken them. In this case faith must look to Christ, and remember that He was in an Agony when he prayed, and in a greater agony than ever you were, so that he sweat even drops of blood, and yet in that agony he prayed more earnestly, Luke 22. 44. He himself once cryed out upon the Cross, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me: and yet he was the Beloved of the Father, and is now at his right hand in glory: And all this he did that we might not be forsaken: He hath removed the enmity: He hath reconciled us to God: By grief he passed himself to joy, and he will wipe away, his servants tears, and cause their griefs to end in joy.