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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.
By this time you may see (if you love not to be blind) that mans chiefest business in the world is with his God, and that our thoughts and all our powers are made to be employed upon him, or for him; and that this is no such needless work as Atheists make themselves believe.
Remember that it is the description of the desperately wicked, Psal. 10. 4. that God is not in all his thoughts. And if yet you understand it not, I will a little further show you the evil of such Atheistical unhallowed thoughts.
Remember that it is the description of the desperately wicked, Psal. 10. 4. that God is not in all his thoughts. And if yet you understand it not, I will a little further shew you the evil of such Atheistical unhallowed thoughts.
1. There is nothing but darkness in all thy Thoughts, if God be not in them. Thou knowest nothing, if thou knowest not him; and thou usest not thy knowledge, if thou use it not on him. To know the creature as without God, is to know nothing: No more than to know all the Letters in the Book, and not to know their signification or sense. All things in the world are but insignificant ciphers, and of no other sense or use, if you separate them from God, who is their sense and end. If you leave out God in all your studies, you do but dream and dote, and not understand what you seem to understand. Though you were taken for the learnedst men in the world, and were able to discourse of all the Sciences, and your thoughts had no lower employment daily than the most sublime speculations which the nature of all the creatures doth afford, it is all but folly and impertinent dotage, if it reach not unto God.