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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.
§. 36. We must love both our natural selves and neighbours, the bad as well as the good, with a love of benevolence, desiring our own good and theirs: But at the same time we must hate our selves and them, so far as wicked, with the hatred of Displicency: and with the love of Complacency, must only so far love our selves or others, as the Image of Divine Goodness is in us or them.
I speak not of the mere natural passion of the parent to the child, which is common to man and beast: nor of the exercises of love in outward acts, for those may be directed by God's commands to go more to one (as a wicked child) that hath less true amiableness in him. But all holy love must be suited to the measures of the truest object.1
I speak not of the meer natural passion of the parent to the child, which is common to man and beast: nor of the exercises of love in outward acts, for those may be directed by God's commands to go more to one (as a wicked child) that hath less true amiableness in him. But all holy love must be suited to the measures of the truest object.1
- 1Templum mentis amo, non marmoris, aurea in illo Fundamenta: manet fides structura nivali. Consurgit pietate nitens, tegit ardua culmen: Justitia interius spargit sola picta rubenti Floor, pudicitiae pudor almus, & atria servat. Haec domus apta mihi est, haec me pulcherrima sedes Accipit, aeterno coelestique hospite digna, Prudent. Quicquid boni egeris in Deos refer: Bias in Laert.Templum mentis amo, non marmoris, aurea in illo Fundamenta: manet fides structura nivali. Consurgit pietate nitens, tegit ardua culmen: Justitia interius spargit sola picta rubenti Flore, pudicitiae pudor almus, & atria servat. Haec domus apta mihi est, haec me pulcherrima sedes Accipit, aeterno coelestique hospite digna, Prudent. Quicquid boni egeris in Deos refer: Bias in Laert.