A26951:1752
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. Our great duty about God our ultimate end, can never be done too much, considered in it self, and in respect to the soul only; we cannot so love God too much: And this Love so considered, hath no extreme, Matth. 22.37.
14. Our great duty about God our ultimate end, can never be done too much, considered in it self, and in respect to the soul only; we cannot so love God too much: And this Love so considered, hath no extream, Matth. 22.37.
15. But yet even this may by accident, and in the circumstances be too much: As 1. In respect to the bodies weaknesses; if a man should so fear God, or so love him, as that the intenseness of the act, did stir the passions, so much as to bring him to distraction, or to disorder his mind, and make it unfit for that or any other duty: 2. Or if he should be exciting the Love of God, when he should be quenching a fire in the Town, or relieving the poor that are ready to perish. But neither of these is properly called, A loving God too much.
16. The duties of the heart, are in themselves greater and nobler than the actions of the outward man, of themselves abstractedly considered. Because the soul is more noble than the body.