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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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In a word, to deny God to be the Sovereign Governor of the world in proper sense, 1. Is a denying him to be God: it being a term of Relation, comprising Government, and not of mere Nature: When it is commanded us that we have no other Gods, and when we are required in the holy Covenant to take the Lord for our God, and give up our selves to him as his people, it most plainly expresseth that his Governing Authority, or his Sovereignty is comprehended in the term God. And indeed having made a Rational-free-creature, whose Nature requireth Moral Government, it followed by necessary resultancy that he that had sole Authority and sufficiency, must be his Sovereign.
In a word, to deny God to be the Soveraign Governour of the world in proper sense, 1. Is a denying him to be God: it being a term of Relation, comprizing Government, and not of meer Nature: When it is commanded us that we have no other Gods, and when we are required in the holy Covenant to take the Lord for our God, and give up our selves to him as his people, it most plainly expresseth that his Governing Authority, or his Soveraignty is comprehended in the term God. And indeed having made a Rational-free-creature, whose Nature requireth Moral Government, it followed by necessary resultancy that he that had sole Authority and sufficiency, must be his Soveraign.
2. These Proud Blasphemers that deny Gods proper Government, do contradict the very drift of Scripture, that calleth him our King and Governor, and requireth our subjection and obedience.
2. These Proud Blasphemers that deny Gods proper Government, do contradict the very drift of Scripture, that calleth him our King and Governour, and requireth our subjection and obedience.
3. They deny the being of Gods Laws, both the Law of Nature, and the Written Laws, and so blot out the Word of God, and the sense and use of all his works. Though they allow them a certain Physical operation on us, yet as Laws they do obliterate them: that is, as they are Norma officii & judicii, our Rule of duty, and expectation, and Gods resolved way of Judging.