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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.
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.
The reason of the major Proposition is, Because to be the ultimate end, and to be maxim amatum, is all one▪ Finis quaerentis ⟨p. 83⟩hath respect to the Means of attainment, and is that cujus amore media eliguntur & applicantur. This God is not capable of, (speaking in propriety) because he never wanteth his End. Finis fruitionis is that which amando fruimur; which we love complacentially in full attainment: And so God doth still enjoy his end: and to have it in Love is to enjoy it.
The reason of the major Proposition is, Because to be the ultimate end, and to be maxime amatum, is all one▪ Finis quaerentis ⟨p. 83⟩hath respect to the Means of attainment, and is that cujus amore media eliguntur & applicantur. This God is not capable of, (speaking in propriety) because he never wanteth his End. Finis fruitionis is that which amando fruimur; which we love complacentially in full attainment: And so God doth still enjoy his end: and to have it in Love is to enjoy it.