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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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§. 2. 2. That the true knowledge of God is powerful and effectual upon the heart and life: And every Attribute and Relation of God, is so to be known, as to make its proper Impress on us: And the measure of this saving knowledge, is not to be judged of, by Extensiveness or number of Truths concerning God which we know, so much as by the Clearness, and Intensiveness, and the measure of its holy effects upon the heart.
§. 3. 3, This is it that denominateth both our selves and all our Duties HOLY: when Gods Image is thus imprinted on us; and we are like him by the new birth, as Children to their Father; and by his knowledge both our Hearts and Lives are made Divine; being disposed unto God, devoted to him, and employed for him; he being our Life, and Light, and Love.
§. 4. This is the sum of the Covenant of God with man [I will be thy God, and thou shalt be my people.] And the other parts of the Covenant, (that Christ be our Saviour, and the Holy Ghost our Sanctifier) are both subservient unto this; there being now no coming unto God, but as Reconciled in Christ our Mediator, and by the teaching and drawing of the Holy Ghost. To be our God, is to be to us An Absolute Owner, a most Righteous Governor, and a most Bountiful Benefactor or Father, as having Created us, Redeemed and Regenerated us; and this according to his most Blessed Nature, properties and perfections.
§. 4. This is the summ of the Covenant of God with man [I will be thy God, and thou shalt be my people.] And the other parts of the Covenant, (that Christ be our Saviour, and the Holy Ghost our Sanctifier) are both subservient unto this; there being now no coming unto God, but as Reconciled in Christ our Mediator, and by the teaching and drawing of the Holy Ghost. To be our God, is to be to us An Absolute Owner, a most Righteous Governour, and a most Bountiful Benefactor or Father, as having Created us, Redeemed and Regenerated us; and this according to his most Blessed Nature, properties and perfections.