Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…

An. 1. This notion of Gods Holiness (that it is his Self-love) is not to be contemned; It seemeth to be so, with this limitation, that you confine not his Holiness to this, but take this only as the most eminent among the inadequate conceptions of it: For his whole Transcendency, in Being, Life and Knowledge, as being adorable by the Creature, and its End, and the Fountain of all created Goodness, and specially of Morality, is also Gods Holiness. 2. But the saying that God is his own End, seemeth improper, though tolerable if spoken but analogically: For God neither hath nor is to himself a Cause nor an Effect, a Beginning nor an End. 3. That the third Person proceedeth by a reflex Act of the infinite Will, many School-men boldly say: And so some say, that he is Gods actual self-love, which is •he same that you call his Holiness: And some say, that he is the Divine Will or Love considered in it self, as distinct from Vital Power, and Intellect (or Wisdom.) But of this I have spoken more largely else-where.

An. 1. This notion of Gods Holiness (that it is his Self-love) is not to be contemned; It seemeth to be so, with this limitation, that you confine not his Holiness to this, but take this only as the most eminent among the inadequate conceptions of it: For his whole Transcendency, in Being, Life and Knowledg, as being adoreable by the Creature, and its End, and the Fountain of all created Goodness, and specially of Morality, is also Gods Holiness. 2. But the saying that God is his own End, seemeth improper, though tolerable if spoken but analogically: For God neither hath nor is to himself a Cause nor an Effect, a Beginning nor an End. 3. That the third Person proceedeth by a reflex Act of the infinite Will, many School-men boldly say: And so some say, that he is Gods actual self-love, which is •he same that you call his Holiness: And some say, that he is the Divine Will or Love considered in it self, as distinct from Vital Power, and Intellect (or Wisdom.) But of this I have spoken more largely else-where.

§. 13. M. S. Adam's promised Reward was, to be fixed in an unchangeable state of pleasing God, by this Holy Spirit: not by infusing any new quality which should unchangeably fasten him to the Rule, (for no created thing can unchangeably keep a man from falling.)