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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.
§. 16. Seeing man's fall was from his God unto himself, especially in point of love; and his real recovery must be, by bringing ⟨p. 256⟩up his soul to the love of God again. 1And seeing a guilty condemned sinner can hardly love that God, who in justice will damn and punish him; nothing can be more congruous and effectual to man's recovery to God, than that God should be represented to him as most amiable; that is, as one that is so willing to pardon and save him, as to do it by the most astonishing expressions of love, in such an Agent, and Pledge, and Glass of Love as Jesus Christ.
- 1Mysterii opus & finem, sacrificari sc•licet & sanctificari fidele•, ipse est solus qui peragit. De his autem preces sunt orationes & supplicationes sacerdotis. Illa enim sunt Domini, haec ve•o se•vi: servator donat, sacerdos p•oiis quae data sunt •ratias agit. Nicol Cabas;il. Liturg. Expos. c. 49. advers. Eos qui dicunt sanctorum in sacro mysterio memoriam esse sacerdotis pro eis ad Deum supplicationem.
The whole design of Christ's Incarnation, Life, Death, Resurrection, Ascension and Intercession, is but to be the most wonderful and glorious declaration of the goodness and love of God to sinners: that as the great frame of the Universe demonstrateth his power, so should the Redeemer be the demonstration of his love. That we may see both the wise contrivances of his love, and at how dear a rate he is content to save us; that our lives may be employed in beholding and admiring the glory of his love, in this incomprehensible representation. That we may love him, as men that are fetched up from the very gates of hell, and from under the sentence of condemnation, and made by grace the heirs of life.