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Gods goodness vindicated for the help of such (especially in melancholy) as are tempted…
Gods goodness vindicated for the help of such (especially in melancholy) as are tempted to deny it, and think him cruel, because of the present and future misery of mankind, with respect to the doctrine of reprobation and damnation / by Richard Baxter ... ; published and prefaced by a friend at whose desire it was written, and to whom it was committed.
London: printed for N. Simmons, 1671
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.
Quest. 1. Is it not certain ⟨p. 12⟩that there is a world, in which is abundance of Created Goodness? The Earth is but a point as to all the World: There is a Sun, and Moon, and multitudes of glorious Stars, which are many of them manifold greater than the Earth. There are Angels, there are men, there are variety of Creatures in this low part of the Creation, which have all their excellency; All the men on Earth cannot by any contribution of their counsels, discern the ten thousandth part of the excellency of this little parcel of Gods works: And as to the whole, it is next to nothing which ⟨p. 13⟩we comprehend: Every Worm, every plant, excelleth the highest human apprehension: Is there no Physical Goodness in all this unmeasurable, this harmonious, this glorious frame? Look about you, look upwards, and deny it if you can: And is there no Moral goodness in holy men and Angels: And is there no felicity and Glorious Goodness in all the Heavens? What mind can be so black, as to deny all Created Goodness?
Quest. 1. Is it not certain ⟨p. 12⟩that there is a world, in which is abundance of Created Goodness? The Earth is but a point as to all the World: There is a Sun, and Moon, and multitudes of glorious Starrs, which are many of them manifold greater than the Earth. There are Angels, there are men, there are variety of Creatures in this low part of the Creation, which have all their excellency; All the men on Earth cannot by any contribution of their counsels, discern the ten thousandth part of the excellency of this little parcel of Gods works: And as to the whole, it is next to nothing which ⟨p. 13⟩we comprehend: Every Worme, every plant, excelleth the highest human apprehension: Is there no Physical Goodness in all this unmeasurable, this harmonious, this glorious frame? Look about you, look upwards, and deny it if you can: And is there no Moral goodness in holy men and Angels: And is there no felicity and Glorious Goodness in all the Heavens? What mind can be so black, as to deny all Created Goodness?