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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.
And it is not only other creatures, but our selves also that we must thus admire, and love, and use for God, while we abase our selves as to our selves, and deny our selves, and use not our selves for our selves, but as we stand in due subordination to him. Abase your selves as sinful, and abhor that which is your own, and not the Lords; But vilify not your nature in it self, •or any thing in you that is the work of God. Pretend not humility for the dishonouring of your Maker. Reason and Natural freedom of the Will, are Gods work, and not yours, and therefore must be honoured, and not scorned and reviled; But the blindness and error of your Reason, and the bad inclinations and actions of your free-wills, these are your own, and therefore vilify them and hate them and spare not. And when you lament the smallness of your Graces, deny them not, and sleight not, but magnify the preciousness of that little that you have, while you mourn for the imperfection. And when men offend you, or prove your enemies, forget not to value and love that of God that yet is in them. All is Good that is of God.
And it is not only other creatures, but our selves also that we must thus admire, and love, and use for God, while we abase our selves as to our selves, and deny our selves, and use not our selves for our selves, but as we stand in due subordination to him. Abase your selves as sinful, and abhor that which is your own, and not the Lords; But vilifie not your nature in it self, •or any thing in you that is the work of God. Pretend not humility for the dishonouring of your Maker. Reason and Natural freedom of the Will, are Gods work, and not yours, and therefore must be honoured, and not scorned and reviled; But the blindness and errour of your Reason, and the bad inclinations and actions of your free-wills, these are your own, and therefore vilifie them and hate them and spare not. And when you lament the smalness of your Graces, deny them not, and sleight not, but magnifie the preciousness of that little that you have, while you mourn for the imperfection. And when men offend you, or prove your enemies, forget not to value and love that of God that yet is in them. All is Good that is of God.