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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. 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.
4. They hereby overthrow all Duty as such; and make Good actions to be but as the motion of the arrow that hits the white, and to have none but a Physical goodness in them. For there can be no proper obedience, where there is no proper Government or Law.
5. Hereby also they deny all Inward Virtue: For this also can have but a Physical Goodness, if Government and Laws be down.