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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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6. Another Delightful portion of our work, is Holy Conference with the experienced servant of the Lord. There are many things considerable in holy conference that maketh it delightful.
1. It is the conference of dearest friends: the special Love that all the Godly have to one another, doth exceedingly sweeten their communion. The very presence of those that we most dearly love, is a pleasure to us: Much more their sweetest edifying discourse.
2. Their conference proceedeth from the spirit of grace, and therefore is gracious, savouring of that spirit: and all the breathings and manifestations of that blessed spirit, are very acceptable to those that have the spirit themselves, and so can savour spiritual things.
3 Their conference is about the highest, the most necessary, the most excellent things: About the most Blessed God and his several Attributes; his will, and works, of Creation, and disposing-Providence, of nature and Grace; about the wonderful mysteries of Redemption, the person, life and sufferings of the Redeemer, his Offices and the performance of them, on earth, and in Heaven, in his Humiliation and his Exaltation; and of the sweet Relations that we and all his Church do stand in, to Christ our Head, our Saviour and Redeemer; as also about the gracious workings of the Holy Ghost, in first begetting and increase of holiness; To open to each other the powerful workings of that Grace that hath raised them above all the creatures, and brought them to a contempt of earthly glory, and set their hearts on the invisible God, and on eternal things, that hath renewed them in the inner man, and made them hate the things they loved, and mortified their oldest strongest sins, and quickened them in the exercise of every grace; all this is edifying sweet discourse to gracious souls.