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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.
Or if you could prove the Creature to be the Objectum finale, that proveth him not to be properly the finis ultimus: For that is a difference between Mans agency and Gods: Man is an Agent made and acting for his final Object, and more ignoble than his Object (as the eye of a Fly that beholdeth the Sun): But God is an Agent more noble than the Object, who gave the Object it self its being, and made it of nothing, for himself; and so the Object is for his final Act.
Or if you could prove the Creature to be the Objectum finale, that proveth him not to be properly the finis ultimus: For that is a difference between Mans agency and Gods: Man is an Agent made and acting for his final Object, and more ignoble than his Object (as the eye of a Flie that beholdeth the Sun): But God is an Agent more noble than the Object, who gave the Object it self its being, and made it of nothing, for himself; and so the Object is for his final Act.
Obj. But God being Perfect needeth nothing, nor can receive any addition of perfection or blessedness; and therefore it is not any addition of Good to himself which he intendeth in the Creation, and consequently it is his ultimate end to do the Creature good.
Answ. All the antecedent part is granted, and is anon to be further asserted: But the last consequence is denied; because there is no other end beside the addition of Good to himself, which God may intend, so far as he may be said to intend an end. He doth all the Good to the Creature which it receiveth, but not ultimately for the Creatures sake.
Answ. All the antecedent part is granted, and is anon to be further asserted: But the last consequence is denyed; because there is no other end beside the addition of Good to himself, which God may intend, so farr as he may be said to intend an end. He doth all the Good to the Creature which it receiveth, but not ultimately for the Creatures sake.