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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.
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.
Here seemeth to arise before us a considerable difficulty. That God can find in his heart to damn one that truly loveth him,1 and is sanctified, is incredible: Because 1. then Gods own Image should be in Hell, and a Saint be damned. 2. Because then the Creature should be readier to love God, than God to love him. 3. Then a Soul in Hell should have holy desires, Prayers, Praises, and other acts of Love. 4. And a Soul capable of the glorifying mercy of God, should miss of it: This therefore is not to be believed: For God cannot ⟨p. 185⟩but take complacency in them that love him, and bear his Image: And those will be happy that God taketh complacency in.
Here seemeth to arise before us a considerable difficulty. That God can finde in his heart to damn one that truly loveth him,1 and is sanctified, is incredible: Because 1. then Gods own Image should be in Hell, and a Saint be damned. 2. Because then the Creature should be readyer to love God, than God to love him. 3. Then a Soul in Hell should have holy desires, Prayers, Praises, and other acts of Love. 4. And a Soul capable of the glorifying mercy of God, should miss of it: This therefore is not to be believed: For God cannot ⟨p. 185⟩but take complacency in them that love him, and bear his Image: And those will be happy that God taketh complacency in.