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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.
2. The Intention of the true ends of Godliness: which is the Reward in Heaven, Matth. 5. 11, 12. Luke 18. 22. Matth. 6. 20, 21. Rom. 8. 17, 18. The Pleasing of God and the Beatifical Vision and fruition of him with Christ and his triumphant Church in the New Jerusalem for ever.
3. The Reception and Observation of the true Rule of Godliness: which is [the Will of God revealed partly in Nature, and fully in the Holy Scriptures:] This must be in our very hearts, Psalm 37. 31. Jer. 31, 33. and with delight we must meditate in it day and night, Psalm 1. 2. To cast away and despise the Law of God, is the brand of the rebellious, Isa. 5. 24.
2. It is Essential to Godliness that it formally contain these three Relations.