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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.
§. 16. So far as a man is short of the thing desired, Love will have some sense of want; and so far as we are crossed in our seekings, and frustrate in any of our hopes, it will be sorrowful.
§. 16. So far as a man is short of the thing desired, Love will have some sense of want; and so far as we are crossed in our seekings, and frustrate in any of our hopes, it will be sorrowfull.
§. 17. 2. Man being appointed to a course and life of Means to his last end, must needs be employed in those Means for the Love of that End: And so the main work of this life is that of a Desiring, seeking Love.
§. 18. 3. The complacential delighting LOVE, hath three degrees: The first in Belief and Hope, The second in foretaste; and The third in full inflamed exercise.
§. 18. 3. The complacential delighting LOVE, hath three degrees: The first in Belief and Hope, The second in foretaste; and The third in full enflamed exercise.