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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.
§. 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.
§. 19. 1. The well-grounded Hope of the foreseen Vision and fruition of the Infinite Good which is our End, must needs possess the considerate mind, with a delight which is somewhat answerable to that Hope.
§. 19. 1. The well-grounded Hope of the foreseen Vision and fruition of the Infinite Good which is our End, must needs possess the considerate minde, with a delight which is somewhat answerable to that Hope.