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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.
No Parent hath any propriety in his Children, nor the most absolute and potent Prince in his People, but as God's Stewards under him; no not in themselves, and therefore not in others. And a Steward hath no propriety in his Master's goods, but derivative, dependent, subordinate and improper, and only the usum, fructuum, and such possession as is necessary thereto, and such an imperfect propriety as will justify that possession.
No Parent hath any propriety in his Children, nor the most absolute and potent Prince in his People, but as God's Stewards under him; no not in themselves, and therefore not in others. And a Steward hath no propriety in his Master's goods, but derivative, dependent, subordinate and improper, and onely the usum, fructuum, and such possession as is necessary thereto, and such an imperfect propriety as will justifie that possession.
§. 6. And as I am not my Own, so nothing is properly my own which I possess, but all that I have is God's as well as I.
For no man can have more title to any thing else than to himself. He that is not Owner of himself, is Owner of Nothing. And we have not any thing, nor can have, which is not as much from God as we, and therefore is not as much his.