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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.
He is the best Christian that hath the fullest impression made upon his soul by the Knowledge of God in all his Attributes. Thus it is our Life eternal to Know God in Christ. It is to reveal the Father that the Son was sent; and it is to reveal the Father and the Son, that the Holy spirit is sent; God is the light and the life, and felicity of the soul. The work of its salvation is but the restoring it to him, and putting it in possession of him. The beginning of this is Regeneration and Reconciliation: the perfection o• it is Glorification, beatifical Vision, and Fruition. The Mind that hath least of God is the darkest and most deluded Mind: And the mind that hath most of him, is the most lucid, pure, and serene. And how is God in the Mind, but as the Light and other visible objects are in the eye; and as pleasant melody is in the ear; and as delightful meats and drinks are in the taste? But that God maketh a more deep and durable impress on the soul, and such as is suitable to its spiritual immaterial nature.
He is the best Christian that hath the fullest impression made upon his soul by the Knowledge of God in all his Attributes. Thus it is our Life eternal to Know God in Christ. It is to reveal the Father that the Son was sent; and it is to reveal the Father and the Son, that the Holy spirit is sent; God is the light and the life, and felicity of the soul. The work of its salvation is but the restoring it to him, and putting it in possession of him. The beginning of this is Regeneration and Reconciliation: the perfection o• it is Glorification, beatifical Vision, and Fruition. The Mind that hath least of God is the darkest and most deluded Mind: And the mind that hath most of him, is the most lucide, pure, and serene. And how is God in the Mind, but as the Light and other visible objects are in the eye; and as pleasant melodie is in the ear; and as delightful meats and drinks are in the tast? But that God maketh a more deep and durable impress on the soul, and such as is suitable to its spiritual immaterial nature.
As your seal is to make a full impression on the wax, of the whole figure that is upon it self, so hath God been pleased in divers seals to engrave his Image, and these must make their Impress upon us. 1. There is the seal of the Creation; for