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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.
§. 8. 2. Thankfulness is that Operation of Love, which the light of Nature hath convinced all the World, to be a duty: and scarce a man is to be found so brutish as to deny it: And our Love to God should be more thankful than to all the World, because our Receivings from Him are much greater, than from all.
§. 8. 2. Thankfulness is that Operation of Love, which the light of Nature hath convinced all the World, to be a duty: and scarce a man is to be found so bruitish as to deny it: And our Love to God should be more thankfull than to all the World, because our Receivings from Him are much greater, than from all.
§. 9. 3. Though we cannot requite God; true gratitude will devote the whole man to his Service, Will, and Honour, and bring back his Mercies to him for his use, so far as we are able.
§. 10. II. Our LOVE to our DIRIGENT Benefactor, is, 1. A fiducial Love, 2. A love well-pleased in his conduct; 3. A following Love.
Though it belongeth to God chiefly as our sapiential Governor to be the Dirigent Cause of our Lives: Yet he doth it also as our Benefactor, by a commixture of the effects of his Relations.