A26923:775
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.
§. 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*: This is Holiness.
§. 11. The Fear of God and his Iudgments, 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*: This is Holiness.