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The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…
The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated and argued by Richard Baxter ; who earnestly beseecheth rulers and clergy not to divide and destroy the land and cast their own souls on the dreadful guilt and punishment of national perjury ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
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.
CHAP. LXII. Fifty Questions to unjust Silencers.
GOD IS LOVE, AND HE THAT DWELLETH IN LOVE DWELLETH IN GOD, AND GOD IN HIM, John 4. 16. The most fundamental and comprehensive Article of Natural and Evangelical Religion.
GOD IS LOVE, AND HE THAT DWELLETH IN LOVE DWELLETH IN GOD, AND GOD IN HIM, Iohn 4. 16. The most fundamental and comprehensive Article of Natural and Evangelical Religion.
How Angels fell from Love and became Devils, malignant Spirits, is not revealed fully to us; but that such there are, both Scripture and too great Experience certify us. But how Man fell, is told us in the Scripture. It pleased God to make a rank of intellectual Animals left to their understanding, self-determining free-will, between the Brutes which are determined to things Sensible, and the confirmed. Angels who are determined to things Spiritual. It pleased him to oblige and allure Man by his Blessings, to live still in the love of God; but withal to permit the malignant Tempter, to try whether by his allurement and deceit, he could win him from this Holy Love: As if a man should leave his Daughter to be his Wife, who could win her own consent. The malignant Spirit prevailed and turned man from the Reigning Love of God, to the Love of SELF, Self-pleasing, Self-ruling, and Self-trusting; and having won man's Will, he is by just permission become his Prince, as long as he can keep the Will which he hath won. But Infinite LOVE, first promised, and then gave his SON to be the PRINCE OF LOVE, and so the Captain of our Salvation; His Incarnation, Doctrine, Life, and Suffering; his Resurrection, Ascension, Intercession and Government, are but the works of LOVE for Man's Salvation, which is, to recover