A26919:582
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.
How much Moral Good is in that course of Piety or Obedience to God, which proceedeth only from the Fear of Gods Judgements, without any Love to him, I shall not now discuss, because I have too far diggerest already.
How much Moral Good is in that course of Piety or Obedience to God, which proceedeth only from the Fear of Gods Judgements, without any Love to him, I shall not now discuss, because I have too far digrest already.
All that I have last said, is to show you the Reasonableness of Living unto God, as being indeed the proper and just employment of the superior faculties of the soul, and their Government of the lower faculties. For if any other called Moralists do seem to subject the Sensual life to the Rational, either they do but seem to do so; the sensual interest being indeed predominant, and their rational operations subjected thereto: or at the best, it is but some poor and erroneous employment of the Rational faculties which they exercise, or some weak approaches towards that high and holy life, which is indeed the life which the Rational nature was created for, and which is the right improvement of it.
All that I have last said, is to shew you the Reasonableness of Living unto God, as being indeed the proper and just employment of the superiour faculties of the soul, and their Government of the lower faculties. For if any other called Moralists do seem to subject the Sensual life to the Rational, either they do but seem to do so; the sensual interest being indeed predominant, and their rational operations subjected thereto: or at the best, it is but some poor and erroneous employment of the Rational faculties which they exercise, or some weak approaches towards that high and holy life, which is indeed the life which the Rational nature was created for, and which is the right improvement of it.