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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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Though I have often opened this heretofore on other occasions, yet my present subject now requireth, 1. That I tell you, What that is that here is called [The Good part.] 2. What it is that is set against it, and by fleshly minds, preferred before it? And having briefly opened these two things, I shall come to the Comparison, and show you which is the better part.
Though I have often opened this heretofore on other occasions, yet my present subject now requireth, 1. That I tell you, What that is that here is called [The Good part.] 2. What it is that is set against it, and by fleshly minds, preferred before it? And having briefly opened these two things, I shall come to the Comparison, and shew you which is the better part.
1. That which Christ calls here [that good part] is 1. Principally, the end of man, or our everlasting Happiness with God in Heaven. 2. Subordinately, the Means by which it is attained. 3. That Happiness which is the end, comprehendeth in it these particulars, which if you distinctly apprehend, you will much the better understand the nature and excellency of it.
1. The true Believer hath the small beginnings, and earnests, and foretastes of the Everlasting Blessedness in this Life, in his approaches to God, and living upon him by Faith and Love, and •• his believing apprehensions of the Favour of God, the Grace •• ⟨p. 109⟩Christ, and the Happiness which in Heaven he shall enjoy for ever.