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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.
§. 40. The lives of Gods Beneficiaries should be employed to his praise and pleasure, and should be the streaming effects of inward love. And all his mercies should be improved to his service, from a thankful heart.
All this hath the fullest testimony of reason, according to the rules of proportion and common right. To whom should we live, but to him from whom and by whom we live? What but our ultimate end should be principally intended, and sought through our whole lives? A creature that hath all from God, should in love and gratitude bring back all to him; and thus we make it more our own.
§. 41. This Life of Love should be the chiefest Delight and Pleasure of our Souls, 1which all other pleasure should subserve, and all be abhorred which contradicteth it.
- 1Arist•ppus rogatus alicuando, quid haberent e•imium Philosopi? Si omnes inquit, leges intereant, equabiliter vivimus. Laert. Oderunt peccare boni vit•tis amore. Hor.