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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.
Nature hath made Love and Goodness like the Iron and the Load-stone. The Understanding doth not so ponderously incline to Truth, as the Will doth naturally to Good. For this being the perfect act of the Soul, the whole inclination of Nature goeth after it. Therefore Love is the highest duty or noblest act of the Soul of Man; the end and perfection of all the rest.
Nature hath made Love and Goodness like the Iron and the Load-stone. The Ʋnderstanding doth not so ponderously incline to Truth, as the Will doth naturally to Good. For this being the perfect act of the Soul, the whole inclination of Nature goeth after it. Therefore Love is the highest duty or noblest act of the Soul of Man; the end and perfection of all the rest.
§. 3. The essential act of this LOVE is COMPLACENCY; or the Pleasedness of the mind in a suitable Good: But it hath divers effects, concomitants and accidents, from whence it borroweth divers Names.
§. 3. The essential act of this LOVE is COMPLACENCIE; or the Pleasedness of the minde in a suitable Good: But it hath divers effects, concomitants and accidents, from whence it borroweth divers Names.
§. 4. The LOVE of Benevolence, as it worketh towards the felicity of another, is the Love of God to man, who needeth him; but not of Man to God, who is above our benefits, and needeth nothing.