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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.
If you say still, You cannot Delight in God: I say again; Do but acknowledge it the great work that God requireth of you, and make it your daily aim, and care, and business, and then you will more easily and certainly attain it. But while you know not your work, or so far mistake it, as to think it consisteth more in sorrows and fears; and never endeavour in your Duties or Meditations to raise your soul to a Delight in God, but rather to cast down your self with still poring on your miseries, no wonder then if you be a stranger to this life of holy Delight!
If you say still, You cannot Delight in God: I say again; Do but acknowledge it the great work that God requireth of you, and make it your daily aim, and care, and business, and then you will more easily and certainly attain it. But while you know not your work, or so far mistake it, as to think it consisteth more in sorrows and fears; and never endeavour in your Duties or Meditations to raise your soul to a Delight in God, but rather to cast down your self with still poaring on your miseries, no wonder then if you be a stranger to this life of holy Delight!
By this time I find my self come up to the subject of my Book of the Saints Rest; wherein having said so much to Direct and Excite you, for the attainment of these Spiritual and Heavenly Delights, I will refer you to it, for your help in that work; and add no more here, but to Desire you through the course of your life to remember, That the true Love of God in Christ, and Delight in him and Thankful, Cheerful Obedience to him, is the great work of a Christian, which God is best pleased with, and which the blessed Angels and Saints shall be exercised in for ever.
By this time I find my self come up to the subject of my Book of the Saints Rest; wherein having said so much to Direct and Excite you, for the attainment of these Spiritual and Heavenly Delights, I will referr you to it, for your help in that work; and adde no more here, but to Desire you through the course of your life to remember, That the true Love of God in Christ, and Delight in him and Thankful, Chearful Obedience to him, is the great work of a Christian, which God is best pleased with, and which the blessed Angels and Saints shall be exercised in for ever.