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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.
For there is nothing more reasonable, than that every one should have his own: And the Understanding of man should conceive of things as they are, and the Will of man should consent to his Makers Interest and right, or else it were most crooked, irregular and unjust. Therefore it must needs be the duty of every reasonable Creature to bethink him, that GOD is his absolute Owner, and thereupon to make a deliberate resolved RESIGNATION of himself to GOD, without any exceptions or reserves.1
For there is nothing more reasonable, than that every one should have his own: And the Ʋnderstanding of man should conceive of things as they are, and the Will of man should consent to his Makers Interest and right, or else it were most crooked, irregular and unjust. Therefore it must needs be the duty of every reasonable Creature to bethink him, that GOD is his absolute Owner, and thereupon to make a deliberate resolved RESIGNATION of himself to GOD, without any exceptions or reserves.1
- 1Agri ne consecrentur Platoni assentior: qui his fere verbis utitur: Terra igitur, ut focus, domicilium sacrum omnium Deorum est: Quocirca nequis iterum idem consecrato. Aurum autem & argentum in urbibus & privatim & in fanis, invidiosa res est: Cicer. de leg. l. 2. p. 245.
§. 3. Therefore man should labour to know wherein he may be most useful to his Maker's Interest, (which is his Pleasure in our perfection) and therein he should willingly and joyfully lay out himself.
For it is undeniable that God should be served with his Own, and that entirely without dividing: for we are not in part, but wholly his.