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The divine life in three treatises
The divine life in three treatises ... by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Francis Tyton, 1664
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
8. You must not have all your Mercies by one messenger or hand: God will not have you confine your Love to one only of his servants: And therefore he will not make one only useful ⟨p. 330⟩to you: but when one hath delivered his message and done his part, perhaps God will send you other mercies by another hand: And it belongeth to him to choose the messenger who gives the gift. And if you will childishly dote upon the first messenger, and say you will have all the rest of your mercies by his hand, or you will have no more, your frowardness more deserveth correction than compassion: and if you be kept fasting till you can thankfully take your food, from any hand that your Father sends it by, it is a correction very suitable to your sin.
8. You must not have all your Mercies by one messenger or hand: God will not have you consine your Love to one only of his servants: And therefore he will not make one only useful ⟨p. 330⟩to you: but when one hath delivered his message and done his part, perhaps God will send you other mercies by another hand: And it belongeth to him to choose the messenger who gives the gift. And if you will childishly dote upon the first messenger, and say you will have all the rest of your mercies by his hand, or you will have no more, your frowardness more deserveth correction than compassion: and if you be kept fasting till you can thankfully take your food, from any hand that your Father sends it by, it is a correction very suitable to your sin.
9. Do you so highly value your friends for God, or for them, or for your selves, in the final consideration? If it was for God, what reason of trouble have you, that God hath disposed of them, according to his wisdom and unerring will? should you not then be more pleased that God hath them, and employeth them in his highest service, than displeased that you want them?
9. Do you so highly value your friends for God, or for them, or for your selves, in the final consideration? If it was for God, what reason of trouble have you, that God hath disposed of them, according to his wisdome and unerring will? should you not then be more pleased that God hath them, and employeth them in his highest service, than displeased that you want them?