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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.
[TO KNOW] Non semper & ubique eodem modo vel gradu: Not to know God here and hereafter in the same manner or degree. But to know him here as in a glass, and hereafter in his Glory, as face to face. To know him by an Affective Practical knowledge: There is no Text of Scripture of which the rule is more clearly true and necessary than of this, that Words of Knowledge do imply affection. It is the closure of the whole soul with God, which is here called the knowing of God: And because it is not meet to name every particular act of the soul, when ever this duty is mentioned, it is all denominated from Knowledge, as the first Act, which inferreth all the rest. 1. Knowledge of God in the Habit, is Spiritual Life as a Principle. 2. Knowledge of God in the exercise, is Spiritual Life, as an employment. 3. The Knowledge of God in perfection with its effects, is Life Eternal as it signifieth full felicity. What it containeth I shall further show anon.
[TO KNOW] Non semper & ubique eodem modo vel gradu: Not to know God here and hereafter in the same manner or degree. But to know him here as in a glass, and hereafter in his Glory, as face to face. To know him by an Affective Practical knowledge: There is no Text of Scripture of which the rule is more clearly true and necessary than of this, that Words of Knowledge do imply affection. It is the closure of the whole soul with God, which is here called the knowing of God: And because it is not meet to name every particular act of the soul, when ever this duty is mentioned, it is all denominated from Knowledge, as the first Act, which inferreth all the rest. 1. Knowledge of God in the Habit, is Spiritual Life as a Principle. 2. Knowledge of God in the exercise, is Spiritaal Life, as an employment. 3. The Knowledge of God in perfection with its effects, is Life Eternal as it signifieth full felicity. What it containeth I shall further shew anon.
[THEE] That is, The Father, called by some Divines, ⟨p. 4⟩Fons vel fundamentum Trinitatis: the fountain, or foundation of the Trinity: and oft used in the same sense as the word [GOD,] to signify the pure Deity.