The divine life in three treatises

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.

Quest. 4. Is there any thing more certain then that by the title of Creation, our Maker hath a full and absolute right to all that he hath made; and consequently to all our love and obedience, our time and powers? For whom should they all be used but for him from whom we have them?

Quest. 5. Can any thing be more sure, then that God is ⟨p. 211⟩the Righteous Governor of the world? and that he Governeth man as a rational creature, by Laws and Judgement? And can we live under his absolute Sovereignty, and under his many righteous Laws, and under his Promises of salvation to the Justified, and under his threatenings of damnation to the unjustified, and yet not have more to do with God than with all the world? If indeed you think that God doth not Love and reward the holy and obedient, and punish the ungodly and disobedient, then either you take him not to be the Governor of the world, or (which is worse) you take him to be an unrighteous Governor: And then you must by the same reason say, that Magistrates and Parents should do so too, and love and reward the obedient and disobedient alike: But if any mans disobedience were exercised to your hurt, by slandering, or beating, or robbing you, I dare say you would not then commend so indifferent and unjust a Governor.

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