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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.
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.
250. And no wonder if he prefer it also for duration; For Love is Heaven or felicity it self, yea somewhat higher than felicity as such. For as God is our End for and in himself, above the ratio foelicitatis, so God is our End as he is to be loved: And God the Ultimate Object, and Love the Ultimate Act, and Gods Love communicated perfectly to us, and Gods Will pleased in all this, are the inadequate Conceptions which make up the Ultimate End, supposing the perfection of Nature, and of the Intellect in the sight of God, as subservient hereunto.
251. Man therefore hath a degree of fruition, or attainment of his Ultimate End in this life, so far as he hath a delightful love of God: Though this be but the foretaste and First-fruits.
251. Man therefore hath a degree of fruition, or attainment of his Ultimate End in this life, so far as he hath a delightful love of God: Though this be but the foretast and First-fruits.
252. Therefore it is not by Faith only that we know what Heaven is, and are drawn to seek it and hope for it: but also by this earnest and foretaste of love; which worketh by a spiritual gust and sweet inward experience. The Intellect first hath Faith, and the Will hath Love; And a promise and earnest is more a promise alone.
252. Therefore it is not by Faith only that we know what Heaven is, and are drawn to seek it and hope for it: but also by this earnest and foretast of love; which worketh by a spiritual gust and sweet inward experience. The Intellect first hath Faith, and the Will hath Love; And a promise and earnest is more a promise alone.