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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.
God being thus revealed to man from without, in the three Glasses or Seals of the Creation, Law, and Son himself, he is also revealed to us in our selves, man being, as it were, a little world.
In the Nature of man is revealed as in a Seal or Glass the nature of the blessed God in some measure. In Unity of Essence, we have a Trinity of Faculties of soul, even the Vegetative, Sensitive and Rational, as our bodies have both parts and spirits, Natural, Vital, and Animal; the Rational Power in Unity, hath also its Trinity of faculties, even Power for Execution, Understanding for Direction, and Will for Command: The measure of Power is Naturally sufficient to its use and end; the understanding is a faculty to reason, discern, and discourse; The will hath that Freedom which beseemeth an undetermined, self-determining creature here in the way.
Besides this Physical Image of God that is inseparable from our Nature, we have also his Law written in our hearts, and are our selves objectively part of the Law of nature, that is, the signifiers of the will of God. Had we not by sin obliterated ⟨p. 11⟩somewhat of this Image, it would have showed it self more clearly, and we should have been more capable of understanding it.
Besides this Physical Image of God that is inseparable from our Nature, we have also his Law written in our hearts, and are our selves objectively part of the Law of nature, that is, the signifiers of the will of God. Had we not by sin obliterated ⟨p. 11⟩somewhat of this Image, it would have shewed it self more clearly, and we should have been more capable of understanding it.