A27004:529
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.
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.
6. That which is God's ultimate End is loved simply for it self, and not as a means to any higher end: The Creature is not loved by him simply for it self, but as a means to a higher end, (viz. his complacency in his glory shining in it): Ergo, it is not his ultimate end. The ultimate end hath no end; but the creatures have an end, viz. the complacency of God in his glory shining in the creature.
Obj. But you confound the final Object and the final Act: God's complacency of love is his final Act, but our enquiry is of the final Object.