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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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Quest. 9. Doth it not tend to bring sin into credit which holiness is contrary to, and to bring the love of God into discredit, and to hinder mens Conversion, and keep them from a holy life, when holiness is taken for so low and natural or common a thing?
Quest. 10. And consequently doth it not tend to the vilifying of the Attribute of Holiness in God, when the ⟨p. 107⟩Image and effect of it is so extenuated?
Quest. 11. And doth it not tend to the contempt of Heaven it self, whose state of felicity consisteth much in perfect Holiness? And if Sanctification be but some common motion, which Cain and Judas had as well as Paul, sure it is less Divine and more inconsiderable then we thought.
Quest. 12. Doth it not speak very dangerous suspicion of a soul that never felt the special work of grace, that can make light of it, and ascribe it most to his own will? And would not sound Humiliation do more then Arguments to cure this great mistake? I never yet came near a throughly-humbled soul, but I found them too low and vile in their own eyes, to have such undervaluing thoughts of grace, or to think it best for them to leave all the efficacy of grace to their own wills! A broken heart abhors such thoughts.