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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.
CHAP. I.
GOD is the Principal Efficient, the Supreme Directive, and the Ultimate final Cause of man: For OF him, and THROUGH him, and TO him are all things, and to him shall be the Glory for ever, Rom. 11. 36. The New life, or Nature in the Saints is his Image, Col. 3. 10. The Principle of it is called The Divine Nature, 2 Pet. 1. 4. The exercise of that principle (including the principle it self) is called The life of God, Eph. 4. 18. from which the Gentiles are said to be alienated by their ignorance. Therefore it is called Holiness, which is a separation to God from common use: and [Gods dwelling in us▪ ] and [ours in him] 1 John 4. 12, 13. of whom we are said to be [born and regenerate] 1 John 4. 7. John 3. 5. And our perfection in Glory, is our living with God, and enjoying ⟨p. 2⟩him for ever. GODLINESS then is the comprehensive name of all true Religion. Jesus Christ himself came but to restore corrupted man to the Love, and Obedience, and Fruition of his Creator, and at last will give up the Kingdom to the Father, that God may be All, and in all: and the Son himself shall be subject to this end,