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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
2. The Invisibility of God also must have its due effects upon us. And, 1. It must warn us, that we picture not God to our eye sight, or in our fancies in any bodily shape. Saith the Prophet, Isa. 40. 18. To whom will you liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? so 25. [No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of his Father, he hath declared him, Joh. 1. 18. and therefore we must conceive of him but as he is declared, Joh. 6. 46. Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.]
2. The Invisibility of God also must have its due effects upon us. And, 1. It must warn us, that we picture not God to our eye sight, or in our fancies in any bodily shape. Saith the Prophet, Isa. 40. 18. To whom will you liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? so 25. [No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son which is in the bosome of his Father, he hath declared him, Joh. 1. 18. and therefore we must conceive of him but as he is declared, Joh. 6. 46. Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.]
If you ask me, How then you should conceive of God, if not in any Bodily shape? I answer, Get all these Attributes, and Relations of God to make their proper Impress upon thy soul, as now I am teaching you, and then you will have the true Conceiving of God: This Question therefore is to be answered at the end of this Discourse, when you have seen all the Attributes of God together, and heard what impression they must make upon you.