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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. 1. Doth not the continued being and well-being of the Creatures, tell us that there is a God on whom (for being and well-being) they depend, and from whom they are and have whatsoever they are and whatsoever they have? And therefore that passively all the Creatures have more respect to him by far then to one another?
Quest. 2. Seeing God communicateth to every Creature according to their several capacities; is it not meet then that he deal with man as man, even as a Creature Rational, capable to know and love and obey his Great Creator, and to be happy in the knowledge, love and fruition of him? That man hath such natural faculties, and capacities, is not to be denied by a man that knoweth what it is to be a man: And that God hath not given him these in vain, will be easily believed by any that indeed believe that he is God.
Quest. 2. Seeing God communicateth to every Creature according to their several capacities; is it not meet then that he deal with man as man, even as a Creature Rational, capable to know and love and obey his Great Creator, and to be happy in the knowledge, love and fruition of him? That man hath such natural faculties, and capacities, is not to be denyed by a man that knoweth what it is to be a man: And that God hath not given him these in vain, will be easily believed by any that indeed believe that he is God.
Quest. 3. Is there any thing else that is finally worthy of the highest actions of our souls? or that is fully adequate to them, and fit to be our happiness? If not, then we are left either to certain infelicity, contrary to the tendency of our natures, or else we must seek our felicity in God.