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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
7. The God can suffer hurt, or hath proper real grief and passion.
8. That God knoweth not all that hath been, is, or will be, and all that is intelligible.
9. That Gods own essential perfection, goodness, and love is not the ultimate and chief object of mans love, to be loved chiefly for himself as most amiable, and above our selves and all things created, but that he is only or chiefly to be loved as our Benefactor, or as good to the creature; And so that man is Gods end, and his own chief and ultimate end, and not God mans chief and ultimate end.
10. That God is the first and chief, or any proper cause of sin; or that God doth by efficient premotion as the first cause predetermine every mans mind, will, tongue and members, to every forbidden act that is done, as it is determined to and specified by the object with all its forbidden circumstances and modes: and so to every lie, perjury, hatred of God and goodness, murder, &c. that is committed.
10. That God is the first and chief, or any proper cause of sin; or that God doth by efficient premotion as the first cause predetermine every mans mind, will, tongue and members, to every forbidden act that is done, as it is determined to and specifyed by the object with all its forbidden circumstances and modes: and so to every lie, perjury, hatred of God and goodness, murder, &c. that is committed.