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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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Quer. 11. Moreover, I desire you to consider, Whether it […] credible to a man of Reason, that God made his noblest creature in this world with a Nature that should be a Necessary Misery and Vexation to it self above all the misery of the baser creatures? and that the wiser any man is, the more miserable he must needs be?
Quer. 11. Moreover, I desire you to consider, Whether it 〈…〉 credible to a man of Reason, that God made his noblest creature in this world with a Nature that should be a Necessary Misery and Vexation to it self above all the misery of the baser creatures? and that the wiser any man is, the more miserable he must needs be?
This is not credible. Yet thus would it be, if there were no life but this. For 1. the Knowledge that man hath of a superior Good (which beasts have not) would Tantalize him and torment him: To know it, and must not partake of it, is to be used as a Horse that is tied near his Provender, which he must not reach.
This is not credible. Yet thus would it be, if there were no life but this. For 1. the Knowledge that man hath of a superiour Good (which beasts have not) would Tantalize him and torment him: To know it, and must not partake of it, is to be used as a Horse that is tyed near his Provender, which he must not reach.
2. The Love, and Desires, and Hopes, that I before described, would all be our Vexation. To Love and Desire that which we cannot attain, and that with the chief of our Affections, is but to make us miserable by virtue.
2. The Love, and Desires, and Hopes, that I before described, would all be our Vexation. To Love and Desire that which we cannot attain, and that with the chief of our Affections, is but to make us miserable by vertue.