A26951:1647
The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…
The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb. 11, 1, formerly preached before His Majesty, and published by his command, with another added for the fuller application : the second is instructions for confirming believers in the Christian faith : the third is directions how to live by faith, or how to exercise it upon all occasions / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1670
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.
14. Being created such a creature, by a mere resultancy from his Nature, and his Creator, he is related to him as his Creature; and in that Unity is the subsequent Trinity of Relations: 1. As we are Gods Propriety, or his Own: 2. His Subjects: 3. His Beneficiaries and Lovers: all comprised in ⟨p. 378⟩the one title of his children. And at once with these Relations of man to God, it is that God is as before related to man, as his Creator, and as his Owner, Ruler, and Chief Good.
14. Being created such a creature, by a meer resultancy from his Nature, and his Creator, he is related to him as his Creature; and in that Unity is the subsequent Trinity of Relations: 1. As we are Gods Propriety, or his Own: 2. His Subjects: 3. His Beneficiaries and Lovers: all comprized in ⟨p. 378⟩the one title of his children. And at once with these Relations of man to God, it is that God is as before related to man, as his Creator, and as his Owner, Ruler, and Chief Good.
15. Man is also related to his fellow creatures, below him, 1. As their Owner, 2. Their Ruler, 3. Their End under God: which is Gods Dominative or Honorary Image upon man, and is called commonly our Dominion over the creatures: So that by mere Creation, and the Nature of the creatures there is constituted a state of communion between God and Man, which is 1. A Dominion, 2. A Kingdom, 3. A Family or Paternity. And the whole is sometime called by one of these names, and sometime by the other, still implying the rest.
15. Man is also related to his fellow creatures, below him, 1. As their Owner, 2. Their Ruler, 3. Their End under God: which is Gods Dominative or Honorary Image upon man, and is called commonly our Dominion over the creatures: So that by meer Creation, and the Nature of the creatures there is constituted a state of communion between God and Man, which is 1. A Dominion, 2. A Kingdom, 3. A Family or Paternity. And the whole is sometime called by one of these names, and sometime by the other, still implying the rest.