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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.
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.
II. That man should have no ultimate End but God, (that is, ultimate ultimus as its called) is proved in what is said: and the fuller opening of it, belongeth to the next Chapter.
III. It is God in all his Perfections, Omnipotency, Wisdom and Goodness, that is mans ultimate end; but it is the last which supposeth both the other, and to which mans will, ⟨p. 86⟩which must perform the most perfect final act, is most fully suited: And therefore is in a special sort, our ultimate end. The Omnipotency of God, is truly the efficient, dirigent and final Cause of all things, but it is most eminent in Efficiency: The Wisdom of God is truly the efficient, dirigent and final cause of all things: but it is most eminent in Direction and Government: The Goodness of God is truly the efficient, dirigent and final cause: But it is most eminent in being the perfective efficient, and final Cause.