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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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§. 6. 4. Gods propriety in us discerned, doth so much aggravate our sin against him, that it should greatly restrain us; and further our humiliation and recovery when we are fallen: Lev. 20. 26. Ye shall be Holy unto me, for I the Lord am Holy, and have severed you from other people, that you should be mine. Ezek. 16. 8. I sware unto thee, and entered into a Covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine, saith the Lord, when he is aggravating Jerusalems sin. 1 Cor. 6. 19, 20. Ye are not your own; for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your Spirits, which are Gods. Justice requireth that every one have his own.
§. 6. 4. Gods propriety in us discerned, doth so much aggravate our sin against him, that it should greatly restrain us; and further our humiliation and recovery when we are fallen: Lev. 20. 26. Ye shall be Holy unto me, for I the Lord am Holy, and have severed you from other people, that you should be mine. Ezek. 16. 8. I sware unto thee, and entered into a Covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine, saith the Lord, when he is aggravating Ierusalems sin. 1 Cor. 6. 19, 20. Ye are not your own; for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorifie God in your body, and in your Spirits, which are Gods. Justice requireth that every one have his own.
§. 7. 5. It should silence all murmurings and repinings against the Providence of God, to consider that we are his Own. Doth he afflict you? and are you not his own? Doth he kill you? Are you not his own? As a Ruler, he will show you reason enough for it in your sins: But as your absolute Lord and Owner he need not give you any other Reason, than that he may do with his own as he list. It is not possible that he can do any wrong to that which is absolutely his Own. If he deny you health or wealth, or friends, or take them from you; he denieth you, or taketh from you nothing but his own. Indeed as a Governor and a Father, he hath secured the faithful of eternal life: Otherwise as their Owner he could not have wronged them, if he had made the most innocent as miserable as he is capable to be. Do you labour, and beat, and kill your Cattle, because they are your own (by an imperfect propriety)? and dare you grudge at God for afflicting his Own, when their Consciences tell them, that they have deserved it and much more?