A27004:527
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. If any thing besides God were his ultimate End, it must thereby be in part Deified, or his actions debased by the lowness of the End: but these are impossibilities. The Actions are no nobler than their End: and the End is more noble than the Means as such.
3. If any thing besides God were his ultimate End, it must thereby be in part Deifi'd, or his actions debased by the lowness of the End: but these are impossibilities. The Actions are no nobler than their End: and the End is more noble than the Means as such.
4. The ultimate End is the most amiable and delectable: The Creature is not to God the most amiable and delectable: Therefore the Creature is not his ultimate end. The first Argument was from the Act, this from the Object.
5. The ultimate end is that in which the Agent doth finally acquiesce: God doth not finally acquiesce in any creature. Therefore no creature is his ultimate end.1
- 1That the finis cui is properly the ultimate end, and the finis cujus is subordinate to it, Cicero showeth in Piso's speech, l. 5. de finib. p. 188. In nobis ipsis ne intelligi quidem, ut propter aliam quampiam rem, verbi gratiâ, propter voluptatem, nos amemus. Propter nos enim illam, non propter eam nosmetipsos diligimus. Quid est quod magis perspicuum est, non modo carum sibi quemque, verum etitiam vehementer carum.That the finis cui is properly the ultimate end, and the finis cujus is subordinate to it, Cicero sheweth in Piso's speech, l. 5. de finib. p. 188. In nobis ipsis ne intelligi quidem, ut propter aliam quampiam rem, verbi gratiâ, propter voluptatem, nos amemus. Propter nos enim illam, non propter eam nosmetipsos diligimus. Quid est quod magis perspicuum est, non modo carum sibi quemque, verum etitiam vehementer carum.