A26896:119

The Christians converse with God, or, The insufficiency and uncertainty of human friendship and…

Name: The Christians converse with God, or, The insufficiency and uncertainty of human friendship and…
Author: Richard Baxter

The Christians converse with God, or, The insufficiency and uncertainty of human friendship and the improvement of solitude in converse with God with some of the author's breathings after him / by Richard Baxter ...

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed for John Salusbury, 1693

viii, [4], 167, [1] p. · 36k words · Wing B1222 · ESTC R14884

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

OF CONVERSING WITH God, &c.

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.

[ Earlier:116–131 of 227

:116p. 76

Obj. But it is said, If we knew Christ after the flesh, henceforth know we him no more.

:117p. 76

Answ. No doubt but all the carnality in Principles, matter, manner and ends of our knowledge will then cease as it's imperfection: But that a carnal knowledge be turned into a spiritual, is no more a diminution to it, than it is to the glory of our Bodies, to be made like the stars in the Firmament of our Father.

:118p. 76

Obj. But then I shall have no more comfort in my present friends than in any other.

:119p. 76–77

Answ. 1. If you had none in them, it is no diminution to our happiness, if indeed we should have all in God immediately ⟨p. 77⟩and alone. 2. But if you have as much in others that you never knew before, that will not diminish any of your comfort in your ancient Friends. 3. But it is most probable to us, that as there is a twofold Object for our love in the Glorified Saints; one is their Holiness, and the other is the Relation which they stood in between God and us, being made▪ his instruments for our conversion and salvation, so that we shall love Saints in Heaven in both respects: And in the first respect (which is the chiefest) we shall love those most that have most of God, and the greatest Glory (though such as we never knew on Earth.) And in the second respect, we shall love those most that were employed by God for our greatest good.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

London

Bookseller

John Salusbury

Year

1693

Size

viii, [4], 167, [1] p.

Words

35,858

Catalogue

Wing B1222 · ESTC R14884

Text

EEBO-TCP A26896

Passages

227

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36