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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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Quest. 8. Dare any one of you say that you are wiser then the All-knowing God? Is not thy wisdom less to his, then a glow-worms light is to the Sun? And hath not God most plainly and frequently in his Word commanded thee a holy life? Yea every part and parcel of it, is nothing else but the obeying of that Word: For if it be not prescribed by the Lord, it is not Holiness, nor that which I am pleading for. And when the living God hath told the world his mind and will, shall a sinful man stand up and say, I am wiser then my Maker? I know a better way then this? What need there all this stir for Heaven? What dost thou less then thus blaspheme, and set up thy folly above the wisdom of the Lord, ⟨p. 73⟩when thou condemnest or reproachest the holiness which he commandeth?
Quest. 8. Dare any one of you say that you are wiser then the Allknowing God? Is not thy wisdom less to his, then a glow-worms light is to the Sun? And hath not God most plainly and frequently in his Word commanded thee a holy life? Yea every part and parcell of it, is nothing else but the obeying of that Word: For if it be not prescribed by the Lord, it is not Holiness, nor that which I am pleading for. And when the living God hath told the world his mind and will, shall a sinful man stand up and say, I am wiser then my Maker? I know a better way then this? What need there all this stir for Heaven? What dost thou less then thus blaspheme, and set up thy folly above the wisdom of the Lord, ⟨p. 73⟩when thou condemnest or reproachest the holiness which he commandeth?
Quest. 9. Dare you say that God is not only so unwise, but so unrighteous and tyrannical, as to give the world unnecessary Laws, and set them upon a needless work? What King so tyrannical as would require his subjects on pain of death to go pick straws against the wind? What Master or Parent so foolishly cruel as to command their servants or children, to weary themselves with hunting butter-flies, and following their own shadows? And darest thou impute such foolish tyranny to the God of heaven? as if he had made a world, and set them upon a needless work? and commanded them to tire themselves in vain?