A27004:626
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.
§. 25. But if any soul be so far above self-love, as to be drawn up in the fervours of Holy love, in the mere contemplation of the infinite Object, not thinking of its own felicity herein, its felicity will be never the less, for not intending or remembering it.
§. 25. But if any soul be so far above self-love, as to be drawn up in the fervours of Holy love, in the meer contemplation of the infinite Object, not thinking of its own felicity herein, its felicity will be never the less, for not intending or remembring it.
1§. 26. Therefore the final act of Love, hath no fitter name than Love it self, or delightful adhesion to God, the infinite Good, with full complacency in him.
1§. 26. Therefore the final act of Love, hath no fitter name than Love it self, or delightfull adhaesion to God, the infinite Good, with full complacency in him.
- 1Qui sancti? qui Religionem colentes, nisi qui meritam Diis immortalibus gratiam, justis honoribus, memory meant persolvunt? Cicer. pro. Planc.Qui sancti? qui Religionem colentes, nisi qui meritam Diis immortalibus gratiam, justis honoribus, memori mente persolvunt? Cicer. pro. Planc.
§. 27. Though God must be loved as our Benefactor, yet the perfect goodness of his Will and Nature, as standing above all our Interest or Benefits, must be the principal reason and Object of our Love.