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A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662
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Which will be the easier understood, when you know what the One thing Needful is: And it is, most directly, that which is our End, To be saved, and to Please the Lord, or to Glorify God and enjoy him in Glory for ever: Which comprehendeth or implieth the necessary means.
Which will be the easier understood, when you know what the One thing Needful is: And it is, most directly, that which is our End, To be saved, and to Please the Lord, or to Glorifie God and enjoy him in Glory for ever: Which comprehendeth or implyeth the necessary means.
And this blessed state is One, considered 1. Objectively: It is One God that we have to please, and to behold, and love, and praise for ever. 2. It is One formally: that is, It is only the souls fruition of this One God that is our End and Blessedness. And thus the End being principally meant, it is said that One thing is necessary; ⟨p. 12⟩though the Means may be more then One that are necessary to obtain it.
And yet even with respect unto the means, it may be said that One thing is necessary, by a General Comprehensive speech, as One containeth many parts: As to cure a sickness may be said to be the One thing needful to preserve a mans life; when yet that cure must be done by many acts and means: The means are but One thing as denominated from their End; even our everlasting happiness. And they are but One as denominated from their Original, they being all but the Will of God revealed in his Word for mans direction to salvation. And they are all One in the principal stock that proceedeth from this Original or root: and that is, the Lord Jesus Christ himself, who is therefore eminently called the way; because there is no other way or means, but what standeth in a due subordination to the Redeemer as the chief means, as well as to the pure God-head as the End.