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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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10. Holiness teacheth men both to continue obedient and faithful against all temptations, and also to propagate the same resolutions, and to draw all others to obedience with us. It was the excellency of Christs example, that he would be obedient even when he was falsely accused of treason, and charged as an usurper of Caesars right. If we should be called seditious, disobedient, rebellions, when we are most loyal, it must not move us from our loyalty at all. In all these ten particulars I have showed, that in the nature of the thing, it is undeniable that Godliness is the strength and beauty and safety of Kingdoms and of all Societies: in that it engageth the subject as well as the Governors, in all that tendeth to their peace and welfare.
10. Holiness teacheth men both to continue obedient and faithful against all temptations, and also to propagate the same resolutions, and to draw all others to obedience with us. It was the excellency of Christs example, that he would be obedient even when he was falsly accused of treason, and charged as an usurper of Cesars right. If we should be called seditious, disobedient, rebellions, when we are most loyal, it must not move us from our loyalty at all. In all these ten particulars I have shewed, that in the nature of the thing, it is undenyable that Godliness is the strength and beauty and safety of Kingdoms and of all Societies: in that it engageth the subject as well as the Governours, in all that tendeth to their peace and wellfare.
And now you may see by what is said, that there can be no weight in the Objection which pretendeth from the Case of the Waldenses, Albigenses, Bohemians, French, &c. to produce experience against what I am proving. Health may as truly be said to be the cause of sicknesses, as Godliness to be the cause of treachery, rebellion or disloyalty; there being nothing in all the world except God himself, so contrary to these as Godliness is.
And now you may see by what is said, that there can be no weight in the Objection which pretendeth from the Case of the Waldenses, Albigenses, Bohemians, French, &c. to produce experience against what I am proving. Health may as truly be said to be the cause of sicknesses, as Godlinesse to be the cause of treachery, rebellion or disloyalty; there being nothing in all the world except God himself, so contray to these as Godliness is.