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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.
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2. The work of our recovery to God is called in Scripture a Redemption, Renovation, Restoration, which imply that Nature was once in that Holy estate before the fall. And it is expressly said, that the New man which we put on is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him] Col. 3. 10. And after Gods Image Adam was created.
2. The work of our recovery to God is called in Scripture a Redemption, Renovation, Restoration, which imply that Nature was once in that Holy estate before the fall. And it is expresly said, that the New man which we put on is renewed in knowledge after the Image of him that created him] Col. 3. 10. And after Gods Image Adam was created.
3. If it belong to the soundness and integrity of Nature to be Holy (that is, disposed and addicted to live to God) then it is an abusive temerity, for men out of their own imagination, to feign, that God first made Nature defective, and then mended it by superadded Grace. But if it belong not to the soundness and integrity of humane Nature to be Holy, then why did God give him Grace to make him so? Nay then, it would follow that when God sanctified Adam, or any since, he made ⟨p. 244⟩him specifically another thing, another creature, of another nature, and did not only cure the diseases of his nature.
4. It is yet apparent in the very Nature of mans faculties, that their very usefulness and tendency, is to live to God, and to enjoy him: And that God should make a Nature apt for such a use, and give it no disposedness to its proper use, is an unnatural conceit. We see to this day that it is but an unreasonable abuse of Reason, when it is not used Holily for God; and it is a very disease of nature to be otherwise disposed. Therefore Primitive Nature had such a Holy inclination.