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How far holiness is the design of Christianity where the nature of holiness and…How far holinesse is the design of Christianity where the nature of holiness and…
How far holiness is the design of Christianity where the nature of holiness and morality is opened, and the doctrine of justification, imputation of sin and righteousness, &c. partly cleared, and vindicated from abuse : in certain propositions, returned to an unknown person, referring to Mr. Fowlers treatise on this subject / by Richard Baxter.How far holinesse is the design of Christianity where the nature of holiness and morality is opened, and the doctrine of justification, imputation of sin and righteousness, &c. partly cleared, and vindicated from abuse : in certain propositions, returned to an unknown person, referring to Mr. Fowlers treatise on this subject / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevill Simons, 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.
What Holiness or Virtue is?
Id▪ ib. cap. 15. Quod si Virtus ad Beatam Vitam nos ducit, nihil omnino esse virtuiem affirmav•rim, nisi summum Amorem Dei — & sic definire quatuor virtutes non dubitem; ut Temperantia sit Amor integrum see prebens ei quod amatur: Justitia, Amor solely amato serviens, & propterea recte dominans; Prudentia, Amor est, ea quibus adjuvatur ab eis quibus impeditur sagaciter seligens.
Id▪ ib. cap. 15. Quod si Virtus ad Beatam Vitam nos ducit, nihil omnino esse virtuiem affirmav•rim, nisi summum Amorem Dei — & sic definire quatuor virtutes non dubitem; ut Temperantia sit Amor integrum se prebens ei quod amatur: Justitia, Amor soli amato serviens, & propterea recte dominans; Prudentia, Amor est, ea quibus adjuvatur ab eis quibus impeditur sagaciter seligens.
That is, [But if Virtue be the way to a Blessed life, I will affirm that Virtue is nothing else, but the chiefest Love of God — And I make no doubt thus to define the four Virtues, Temperance is Love, delivering our selves entirely to our Beloved; Fortitude is Love, easily enduring all things for the sake of our Beloved; Justice is Love, serving our Beloved alone, and therefore rightly governing our inferiors; Prudence is Love, skilfully differencing our helps from our hinderances.]