A26923:771
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
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.
§. 7. Our Holiness is no alienation from the Creature as a Creature, in its due place and subordination to the Creator, but contrarily containeth our Honour of, and Love to, all God's Creatures for his sake and impress, and a devoting of all that is ours to his use: But it containeth a renunciation of that which is against1 his Honour and Government and Love, as such.
§. 8. As God communicateth Holiness really and relatively to Man, so holy persons communicate such Holiness to Creatures below them, as consisteth in the use and relation of things separated to God, by a due separation of them by their dedication and holy use: and that in various degrees.
§. 9. True Holiness is the Health, the Rectitude, the Honesty, the Justice of man's1 Soul; and therefore necessary, as his Duty by God's Law, even ⟨p. 205⟩of Nature, and to his Happiness both in the very nature of the thing, and by the determination of God's Law. It is a contradiction to be happy and unholy, Rev. 20. 6.