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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
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. This apprehension is increased in Mankind by Gods obliging us, to forgive one another.
§. 5. This apprehension is increased in Mankinde by Gods obliging us, to forgive one another.
For though it doth not follow, that God must forgive all that which he bindeth us to forgive, for the Reasons before expressed; Yet we must believe, that the Laws of God proceed from that Wisdom and Goodness which is his Perfection, and that they bear the Image of them; and that the obeying of them tendeth to form us more to his Image our selves, and to make us Holy as he is Holy: And therefore that this Command of God to Man, to be merciful and forgive, doth intimate to us, that mercy and forgiveness are agreeable and pleasing unto God.
For though it doth not follow, that God must forgive all that which he bindeth us to forgive, for the Reasons before expressed; Yet we must believe, that the Laws of God proceed from that Wisdom and Goodness which is his Perfection, and that they bear the Image of them; and that the obeying of them tendeth to form us more to his Image our selves, and to make us Holy as he is Holy: And therefore that this Command of God to Man, to be mercifull and forgive, doth intimate to us, that mercy and forgiveness are agreeable and pleasing unto God.
1§. 6. God cannot cast away from his Love and from Felicity, any soul which truly loveth Him above all, and which so repenteth of his sin, as to turn to God in Holiness of Heart and Life.
- 1Nec ex templo ara, nec ex humana natura miserecordia tollenda est; inquit Phocion, in Stobaeo.