A26935:74
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.
5. That they would consider, how this impious conceit is calculated ⟨p. 96⟩for the licensing of all manner of villainy in the world, and to root out all the relicts of goodness from among mankind. For who can expect that any man should be better than his Maker; and that he should have any Good, which denieth God to be Good?
5. That they would consider, how this impious conceit is calculated ⟨p. 96⟩for the licensing of all manner of villany in the world, and to root out all the relicts of goodness from among mankind. For who can expect that any man should be better than his Maker; and that he should have any Good, which denyeth God to be Good?
6. That they would labour hard to be better themselves. For he that hath a true Created Goodness, is thereby prepared to relish and admire Gods primitive uncreated goodness. Whereas a wicked ⟨p. 97⟩or a guilty sinner, cannot much value that which he is so unsuitable to, and which he thinks will be to him a consuming fire. Truly God is good to Israel, and to such as are of a clean heart, Psal. 73.1. But he that liveth in the Love of sin, will be doubting of the Love of God, and fearful of his wrath, and unfit to relish and delightfully perceive his goodness. Psal. 34.8