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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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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.
IV. Quest. But is nothing necessary but this One? Are not other things also Needful in their places?
IV. Quest. But is nothing necessary but this One? Are not other things also Needfull in their places?
Answ. I told you that other things are not other, so far as they stand in due subordination to this one, or are the parts of it: He that saith to a sick man, [You would do well if you had such a skilful man for your Physician] doth not by these words intend to exclude his Apothecary, or his medicines, or the taking of them, or the instruments and means by which they are applied; but rather includeth and implieth all these in the One thing mentioned to which they do subserve. So all Gods graces, and all the means of grace, and Christian duties, are contained or implied in the One thing Necessary, or supposed to it. Because it is One thing that is necessary as the End, therefore many means are necessary to the obtaining of it: Though there be also a kind of unity (as hath been showed) among those means.
Answ. I told you that other things are not other, so far as they stand in due subordination to this one, or are the parts of it: He that saith to a sick man, [You would do well if you had such a skilfull man for your Physicion] doth not by these words intend to exclude his Apothecary, or his medicines, or the taking of them, or the instruments and means by which they are applyed; but rather includeth and implyeth all these in the One thing mentioned to which they do subserve. So all Gods graces, and all the means of grace, and Christian duties, are contained or implyed in the One thing Necessary, or supposed to it. Because it is One thing that is necessary as the End, therefore many means are necessary to the obtaining of it: Though there be also a kind of unity (as hath been shewed) among those means.