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Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…
Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and the latter times of his corporal pains and weakness.
London: printed by Tho. Snowden for B. Simmons, 1683
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§ 7. But, 1. What felicity can we conceive of without any affection of delight or joy: Certainly bare Volition now without these doth seem to be no felicity to us: Nor knowledge neither, if there were no delight in knowing.
§ 7. But, 1. What felicity can we conceive of without any affection of delight or joy: Certainly bare Volition now without these doth seem to be no felicity to us: Nor knowledg neither, if there were no delight in knowing.
§ 8. 2. Yea, I leave it to mens experience to judge, whether there be now any such thing in us as proper willing which is not also some internal sense of and affection to the good which we will? If it be Complacency or the Pleasedness of the Will, this signifies some Pleasure, ⟨p. 200⟩and Love in the first act is nothing else but such an Appetite: If it be Desire, it hath in it a Pleasedness in the thing desired as in esse cognito, as it is thought on by us; and what Love is without all sense and affection?
§ 9. 3. Why doth the Scripture ascribe Love and Joy to God and Angels if there were not some reason for it? Doubtless there is great difference between the heavenly Love and Joy, and ours here in the Body: And so there is also between their knowledge and ours, and their Will and ours: But it is not that theirs is less or lower than ours, but somewhat more excellent, which ours giveth us some analogical (or imperfect formal) notice of.
§ 9. 3. Why doth the Scripture ascribe Love and Joy to God and Angels if there were not some reason for it? Doubtless there is great difference between the heavenly Love and Joy, and ours here in the Body: And so there is also between their knowledge and ours, and their Will and ours: But it is not that theirs is less or lower than ours, but somwhat more excellent, which ours giveth us some analogical (or imperfect formal) notice of.