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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.
4. That they would think what horrid wickedness this sin containeth (where Melancholy and involuntariness doth not extenuate it.) Is it any better than a denying that there is any God? As is said before; To be God is to be Perfectly Powerful, Wise and Good: And if ⟨p. 95⟩be none such, there can be no God: And then who made the World, and all that is Good in it by derivative goodness? Yea is it not to represent the most amiable blessed God, in Satan's Image (who is most evil and a Murderer from the beginning Joh. 8.44.) that so men may hate him and fly from him as they do from Devils? And can you tell how great a crime this is?
4. That they would think what horrid wickedness this sin containeth (where Melancholy and involuntariness doth not extenuate it.) Is it any better than a denying that there is any God? As is said before; To be God is to be Perfectly Powerful, Wise and Good: And if ⟨p. 95⟩be none such, there can be no God: And then who made the World, and all that is Good in it by derivative goodness? Yea is it not to represent the most amiable blessed God, in Satans Image (who is most evil and a Murderer from the beginning Joh. 8.44.) that so men may hate him and fly from him as they do from Devils? And can you tell how great a crime this is?
5. That they would consider, how this impious conceit is calculated