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The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32…
The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32 directions : written for the use of a troubled friend / and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for T. Underhil, 1653
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.
5. Our Graces are the spiritual Life or Health of the soul, and our holy actions are the vital operations. Now Life and Health are necessary Rejoicing, delighting things of themselves: and vital Actions, are necessarily pleasant and delectable.
5. Our Graces are the spiritual Life or Health of the soul, and our holy actions are the vital operations. Now Life and Health are necessary Rejoycing, delighting things of themselves: and vital Actions, are necessarily pleasant and delectable.
6. Our Graces and holy Actions must needs Rejoice us in respect of their Objects. For the object of our Love, Trust, Hope, Meditation, Prayer, Conference, &c. is God himself, and the Lord Jesus, and the Joys of Heaven. And how can such Actions choose but Rejoice us!
6. Our Graces and holy Actions must needs Rejoice us in respect of their Objects. For the object of our Love, Trust, Hope, Meditation, Prayer, Conference, &c. is God himself, and the Lord Jesus, and the Joyes of Heaven. And how can such Actions choose but Rejoice us!
7. Yea Rejoicing it self, and Delighting our selves in God, is not only one part of our Duty, but that great Duty wherein lieth the height of our Christianity: And how vain a speech is it, to say, that we may not take up our Comforts from our own works, nor Rejoice in any thing of our own; when even Rejoicing it self, and Delighting, and Comforting our selves is one part of our Duty?