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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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But, for the answering of all objections against this, I must desire you to observe these two things following. 1. That we here suppose man a terrestrial inhabitant clothed with flesh: otherwise it is confessed that if he were perfect in heaven, where he had the Beatifical Vision to confirm him, many of these forementioned advantages to him would be none.
But, for the answering of all objections against this, I must desire you to observe these two things following. 1. That we here suppose man a terrestrial inhabitant cloathed with flesh: otherwise it is confessed that if he were perfect in heaven, where he had the Beatifical Vision to confirm him, many of these forementioned advantages to him would be none.
2. And it is supposed that God will work on man by Moral means; and where he never so infallibly produceth the good of man, he doth it in a way agreeable to his nature and present state; and that his work of Grace is Sapiential, magnifying the contrivance and conduct of his Wisdom, as well as his Power: otherwise indeed God might have done all without these or any other means.
3. The knowledge of God in Christ as our Redeemer, must imprint upon the soul those Holy Affections which the design and nature of our Redemption do bespeak, and which answer these forementioned ends. As 1. It must keep the soul in a sense of the odiousness of sin, that must have such a remedy to pardon and destroy it.