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Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up to a confirmed state of grace…
Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up to a confirmed state of grace with motives opening the lamentable effects of their weaknesses and distempers / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1669
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Directions 1: DIRECTIONS TO THE CONVERTED, For their establishment, growth, and perseverance.
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4. And Christ plainly intimateth that there is a place on his right hand and his left to give, in that Kingdom, though as the Son of Man he had not the principal disposal of it (And then the Kingdom must be delivered to the Father, and God be all and in all; and therefore the Mediator as such have somewhat less to do, than now.) And when Christ telleth us of Lazarus in Abraham's bosom, and of many from the East and West sitting down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he intimateth to us, that every place in Heaven is not so high as Abraham's bosom, nor a sitting with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So that I take it as a plain revealed truth that divers degrees of holiness will have divers degrees of Glory hereafter.
4. And Christ plainly intimateth that there is a place on his right hand and his left to give, in that Kingdom, though as the Son of Man he had not the principal disposal of it (And then the Kingdom must be delivered to the Father, and God be all and in all; and therefore the Mediator as such have somewhat less to do, than now.) And when Christ telleth us of Lazarus in Abrahams bosome, and of many from the East and West sitting down with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he intimateth to us, that every place in Heaven is not so high as Abrahams bosome, nor a sitting with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. So that I take it as a plain revealed truth that divers degrees of holiness will have divers degrees of Glory hereafter.
The chief Argument to the contrary is fetched from the Parable of the Labourers, that coming in at several hours, received every one a penny. But this is much misunderstood: For here is not a word in it contrary to our Assertion. The Parable only saith that [Glory shall not be proportioned to the Time; but they that come later shall have never the less for that]. Which is nothing to our ⟨p. 46⟩question about the Degrees of Holiness. For many that are first in Time may be least and last in Holiness; and many that are last in Time, may in that little time come to be best and greatest in Holiness: and consequently in Glory. The Parable in