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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.
8. Moreover you must have all the corruptions of your natures healed, and your sins subdued, and your hearts made new by sanctifying grace, and the Image of God implanted in you, and your lives made holy and sincerely conformable to the will of God. All this must be done, or you cannot be acceptable to God, nor ever will be saved: Though your carnal interest rise against it; though your old corrupted natures be against it; though your custom, and pleasure, and worldly gain and honour be against it; though all your carnal friends and superiors be against it; though the devil will do all that ⟨p. 201⟩he can against it; yet all this must be done, or you are lost for ever: And all this must be done by the Spirit of God; for it is his work to make you New and Holy: And can you think then that the business is not great which you have with God? when you have tried how hard every part of this work is, to be begun and carried on, you will find you have more to do with God, than with all the world.
8. Moreover you must have all the corruptions of your natures healed, and your sins subdued, and your hearts made new by sanctifying grace, and the Image of God implanted in you, and your lives made holy and sincerely conformable to the will of God. All this must be done, or you cannot be acceptable to God, nor ever will be saved: Though your carnal interest rise against it; though your old corrupted natures be against it; though your custome, and pleasure, and worldly gain and honour be against it; though all your carnal friends and superiors be against it; though the devil will do all that ⟨p. 201⟩he can against it; yet all this must be done, or you are lost for ever: And all this must be done by the Spirit of God; for it is his work to make you New and Holy: And can you think then that the business is not great which you have with God? when you have tryed how hard every part of this work is, to be begun and carryed on, you will finde you have more to do with God, than with all the world.