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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.
Subjection is an obligation to obedience. Where the Authority and Subjection are absolute and unlimited, there the obedience must be absolute and most exact. The understanding of our absolute Ruler is the absolute rule of our understandings. No man must set up his conceits against him, nor quarrel with his Government or Laws. If any thing of His revelation or prescription seem questionable, unjust or unnecessary to us, it is through our want of due subjection, through the arrogancy and enmity of our carnal minds. His Will, de Debito, 1must be the absolute Rule of all our Wills: so much secret exceptions and reserves as we have in our resignation and subjection, so much hypocrisy and secret rebellion we have. Our subjective obligation is so full and absolute, and our Ruler so infallible, just and perfect, that it is not possible for any mans obedience to God to be too absolute, exact or full. Nothing can be more certain than that a Creature, subject to the government of his Creator, of infinite Power, Wisdom and Goodness, doth owe him the most perfect and exact obedience, according to the utmost of his Powers, without any dissent, exception, resistance, unwillingness or neglect.
Subjection is an obligation to obedience. Where the Authority and Subjection are absolute and unlimited, there the obedience must be absolute and most exact. The understanding of our absolute Ruler is the absolute rule of our understandings. No man must set up his conceits against him, nor quarrel with his Government or Laws. If any thing of His revelation or prescription seem questionable, unjust or unnecessary to us, it is through our want of due subjection, through the arrogancy and enmity of our carnal minds. His Will, de Debito, 1must be the absolute Rule of all our Wills: so much secret exceptions and reserves as we have in our resignation and subjection, so much hypocrisie and secret rebellion we have. Our subjective obligation is so full and absolute, and our Ruler so infallible, just and perfect, that it is not possible for any mans obedience to God to be too absolute, exact or full. Nothing can be more certain than that a Creature, subject to the government of his Creator, of infinite Power, Wisdom and Goodness, doth owe him the most perfect and exact obedience, according to the utmost of his Powers, without any dissent, exception, resistance, unwillingness or neglect.