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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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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.
3. To use all those Means, and do the Duties before-mentioned in vain, when we are not capable of the End, is but to roll at Si•iphus stone, and to be made to wash Blackamores, or to fill a bottomless tub?
4. No creature here but man, hath Fears▪ of any misery after death, and therefore none would be here so miserable. There is no Infidel but must confess, that for ought h• knows there may be a life of punishment for the wicked. And this [may be] will breed more fears in a considerate man, then Death it self alone could do.
4. No creature here but man, hath Fears▪ of any misery after death, and therefore none would be here so miserable. There is no Infidel but must confess, that for ought h• knows there may be a life of punishment for the wicked. And this [may be] will breed more fears in a confiderate man, then Death it self alone could do.