A26923:776
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.
§. 12. Because a man is denominated according to the predominant bent of his Will (or Soul) he is not to be called Holy who hath some slight inclination to please God, and more to please his own carnal Appetite and Will; or greater love to the Creature than to God.
§. 13. Christ himself came into the World to recover sinful Man by Holiness †to God, and disdained not to be a means of Man's Sanctification, and to make this the notable operation of his Holy Spirit on us.
§. 14. Whatsoever Law Men are under, before Christ or since, Jew or Gentile, Works or Grace, no man can be saved and happy without Holiness; that is, unless they be devoted in Obedience ⟨p. 206⟩and Love to GOD and Goodness.