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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
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THE understanding is the subservient faculty, to let in that light, which may by direction and excitation, guide the will: Having showed you the Truth, I am next to show you how you may improve it, and so to apply it, as may best help you to apply it to your selves.
THE understandidg is the subservient faculty, to let in that light, which may by direction and excitation, guide the will: Having shewed you the Truth, I am next to shew you how you may improve it, and so to apply it, as may best help you to apply it to your selves.
And if I should here fall upon things impertinent, or make it my work to claw your ears, or exalt my self in your esteem, by an unseasonable ostentation of learning or eloquence, or carry on any such corrupt design, while I should faithfully do the work of God, my Text it self would openly condemn me. If One thing be needful, it is that One that I must do my self, while I am exhorting you to do it: And woe be to me, if I should lay by that, to do any other unnecessary work, even to fish for the applause of Carnal wits, while my very subject is the Reproofs of Christ against a much more tolerable error.