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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.
§. 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.
§. 4. Therefore no man can have any propriety in himself, but what is derived from his Absolute Lord, and standeth in full subordination to his propriety.
For there can be but one full and absolute Proprietor. I can have no other propriety in my self, but by derivation and trust from my Creator.
§. 5. Therefore also no creature can have any Propriety in another creature, but only derivatively, subordinate, & secundum quid.