A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…

Name: A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ...…
Author: Richard Baxter

A saint or a brute the certain necessity and excellency of holiness, &c. ... / by Richard Baxter.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by R.W. for Francis Tyton, 1662

[17], 23, 384 [i.e. 374] p. · 179k words · Wing B1382 · ESTC R6046

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Introduction: THE INTRODUCTION.

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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In General GODLINESS is our DEVOTEDNESS TO GOD. And all these things following are Essential to it, and of ind spensible Necessity to salvation.

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1. That materially it contain these three things.

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1. The true internal Principle, Soul and Life of Godliness; which is the Spirit of God, Rom. 8. 9. The Divine Nature, 2 Pet. 1. 4. The new, and soft, and single heart, Jer. 32. 39. Ezek. 11. 19. The seed of God abiding in us, 1 John 3. 9.

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2. The Intention of the true ends of Godliness: which is the Reward in Heaven, Matth. 5. 11, 12

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