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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,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
THE Second Part. OF GODS GOVERNMENT, AND MORAL WORKS. › Section 17: Of Love as the end of Faith.
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SECT. XVII. Of Love as the end of Faith.
247. This predominant Love of God and Holiness, is so proper a 1fruit of the Spirit, that it is the very heart of the New Creature, the sum of Sanctification, as love is the sum of the Law. So that to give the Spirit of Adoption, to cry Abba, Father, and to sanctify, and to work in us the love of God and holiness, are three phrases of the same signification in the Word of God.
247. This predominant Love of God and Holiness, is so proper a 1fruit of the Spirit, that it is the very heart of the New Creature, the sum of Sanctification, as love is the sum of the Law. So that to give the Spirit of Adoption, to cry Abba, Father, and to sanctifie, and to work in us the love of God and holiness, are three phrases of the same signification in the Word of God.
- 1Cui non unus idemque vit• scopus est, hic unus idemque per vitam totam esse non potest. Non est satis quod dixi, nisi illud etiam adjeceris, qualis scopus hic esse debeat. M. Antoninus li. 11. sect. 21. p. 113.
248. As Christ as Mediator is the summary means and way to the Father, to bring man home to his Creator; so Faith in Christ is a mediating Grace, to work in us the love of God: And as else-where I have oft said, The bellows of Faith kindling Love, and Love working by holy Obedience, Patience, Mortification, Gratitude and Praise, is the substance of all true Religion.