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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.
§. 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.
- 1Heb. 12. 14. Col. 1. 22. Eph. 1. 4. & 5. 27. 1 Pe•. 1. 16.
§. 10. Holiness is the end or perfection of our Nature, and God's chief Interest in man, and is begun by Grace and perfected in Glory.1
- 1Eph. 5. 27. & 4. 16, &c.
§. 11. The Fear of God and his Judgments, and a Care of our own Souls, and a Sorrow for Sin, and a desire of Happiness, may be not only Preparatives, but lower parts of Holiness; but the true formal specifying nature of it consisteth in a love of God's infinite goodness, and a Will addicted to obey his Will, or a Pleasedness in pleasing Him