Old Paths In Portrait

“Remember that God is your sovereign King, to rule and judge you; and that it is your rectitude to and happiness to obey and please him. Labor therefore to bring your souls and bodies into the most absolute subjection to him, and make it your delight and business sincerely to exactly obey his will.

Having resigned yourselves absolutely to God as your Owner, you are next to subject yourselves absolutely to God as your Governor or King. How much of your religion consisteth in this, you may see in the nature of the thing, in the design of the law and word of God, in the doctrine and example of Jesus Christ, in the description of the last judgment, and in the common consent of all the world. Though love is the highest work of man, yet it is so far from discharging us from our subjection and obedience, that it constraineth us to most powerfully and most sweetly, and it must itself be judge by these effects, “If you love me, keep my commandments. He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loves me.”

-Richard Baxter English Puritan Minister 1615-1691