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The divine life in three treatises
The divine life in three treatises ... by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Francis Tyton, 1664
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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.
And as Eternity is unvaluable in comparison of time, so the use and excellency that a Believer doth ascribe to a bit of bread or the basest creature in the sanctified improvement of it, is ten thousand times, even unspeakably above the ⟨p. 30⟩use and excellency that an Unbeliever ascribeth to his soul or to his Prince. He that stampeth the Image of a Dog or a Toad upon gold instead of the Image of the Prince, and would have ten thousand pounds-worth go but for a farthing, doth not by a thousand degrees so much debase the gold as the Infidel doth debase his soul and all things. Infidelity is guilty of the destruction of all souls, and the destruction of all mercies, and the destruction of all Divine Revelations, of all graces, of all ordinances, and means, and of the destruction of the whole creation that was made for man: For he that destroyeth the End, destroyeth all the means: But the Infidel destroyeth and denieth the end of every one of these, and Holiness only doth give them up and use them to their ends.
And as Eternity is unvalualbe in comparison of time, so the use and excellency that a Believer doth ascribe to a bit of bread or the basest creature in the sanctified improvement of it, is ten thousand times, even unspeakably above the ⟨p. 30⟩use and excellency that an Unbeliever ascribeth to his soul or to his Prince. He that stampeth the Image of a Dog or a Toad upon gold instead of the Image of the Prince, and would have ten thousand pounds-worth goe but for a farthing, doth not by a thousand degrees so much debase the gold as the Infidel doth debase his soul and all things. Infidelity is guilty of the destruction of all souls, and the destruction of all mercies, and the destruction of all Divine Revelations, of all graces, of all ordinances, and means, and of the destruction of the whole creation that was made for man: For he that destroyeth the End, destroyeth all the means: But the Infidel destroyeth and denyeth the end of every one of these, and Holiness only doth give them up and use them to their ends.