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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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7. And this Knowledge of the Dominion of God must prevail with us effectually to Resign our selves absolutely to him. Our consent doth give him no title to us, but it is necessary to our well-fare that we confess his title. All men, even the wicked are his Own: but that is against their wills: but the godly are willingly his Own, and disclaim all interest in themselves but what is duly subordinate to his: The name of God is put upon them, as you put your names on your goods or sheep. Ezek. 16. 8. I sware unto thee, and entered into a Covenant with thee, saith the Lord, and thou becamest mine] Mal. 3. 17. [And they shall be mine saith the Lord in that day when I make up my jewels] To be entirely his by Covenant is proper to a Saint: For sanctification hath these parts; one is the habitual devotion of the soul to God, and the other is the actual dedication, and a third is the relation of the person as thus dedicated, and the fourth is the actual using of our selves for God. These four are the parts of Sanctification; so that all is but our Giving up our selves to God. But to be his in Right is common to the Devils and most ungodly. The hearts of the ⟨p. 114⟩sanctified do resolvedly and delightfully say [Cant. 2. 16. My beloved is mine, and I am his] and 6. 3. [I am my beloveds, and my beloved is mine] See then that you keep not any thing back, but resign up your selves entirely to God, as those that know they are wholly his.
7. And this Knowledge of the Dominion of God must prevail with us effectually to Resign our selves absolutely to him. Our consent doth give him no title to us, but it is necessary to our well-fare that we confess his title. All men, even the wicked are his Own: but that is against their wills: but the godly are willingly his Own, and disclaim all interest in themselves but what is duely subordinate to his: The name of God is put upon them, as you put your names on your goods or sheep. Ezek. 16. 8. I sware unto thee, and entered into a Covenant with thee, saith the Lord, and thou becamest mine]