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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / 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.
57. This was that state of Holiness that man fell from, and which Christ came to reconcile and to restore him to: And which is peculiarly called GODLINESS or SANCTIFICATION in the New Testament, as distinct from Faith, in its narrower, mediate, official notion.
58. As the work of Christ our Redeemer and Mediator is to bring man back to God the Creator; so Faith in Christ, and all Evangelical positive Institutions, are the Bellows and fuel of this Love; and means to it as the end.
58. As the work of Christ our Redeemer and Mediator is to bring man back to God the Creator; so Faith in Christ, and all Evangelical positive Institutions, are the Bellows and fewel of this Love; and means to it as the end.
59. The expressions of this Love are not of equal necessity with the Love it self; but some of them more mutable.
60. Caeteris paribus the expressions of our Love of God, are to be preferred before the expressions of our Love to men. But God hath made some Great Acts of Charity to men, to be Greater expressions of our Love to Himself, than some smaller Immediate expressions of it to Him.