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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.
§. 37. The love of God should be with all our soul, and with all our might; not limited, suppressed or neglected, but be the most serious, predominant action of our souls.
How easy a matter is it to prove Holiness to be naturally mans greatest duty, when love to God, which is the sum of it, is so easily proved to be so. All the reason in the world, that is not corrupted, but is reason indeed, must confess without any tergiversation, that it is the most great and unquestionable duty of man to love God above all; yea, with all our heart and soul and might. And he that doth so, shall never be numbered by him with the ungodly, for those are inconsistent.
How easie a matter is it to prove Holiness to be naturally mans greatest duty, when love to God, which is the summ of it, is so easily proved to be so. All the reason in the world, that is not corrupted, but is reason indeed, must confess without any tergiversation, that it is the most great and unquestionable duty of man to love God above all; yea, with all our heart and soul and might. And he that doth so, shall never be numbred by him with the ungodly, for those are inconsistent.
§. 38. The exercises of love to God in complacency, desire, seeking, &c. should be the chief employment of our thoughts.