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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. As God's Goodness is that by which he communicateth Being and all Good to all his Creatures, and is his most completive Attribute, in point of Efficiency, so is it that Attribute which is in genere causae finalis, the finis ultimate ultimus of all his works. God can himself have no ultimate end but Himself: and his rational creatures can have no other lawful ultimate End: And in Himself, it is his Goodness, which is completely and ultimately that End.
Here I am to show, I. That God himself can have no ultimate end but Himself. II. That Man should have no other. III. That God, as in his Goodness, is ultimate ultimus, the End of Man.
Here I am to shew, I. That God himself can have no ultimate end but Himself. II. That Man should have no other. III. That God, as in his Goodness, is ultimate ultimus, the End of Man.
I. 1. That which is most Beloved of God is his ultimate End: but God Himself is most beloved of Himself: Therefore he is his own ultimate End.