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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
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.
1§. 1. Notwithstanding all this forementioned sin and guilt and misery of man, and Justice of God, Experience assureth all the Earth, that Great Mercy is still continued to them, and that they have to do with a Most Merciful God.
1§. 1. NOtwithstanding all this forementioned sin and guilt and misery of man, and Justice of God, Experience assureth all the Earth, that Great Mercy is still continued to them, and that they have to do with a Most Merciful God.
- 1Crede mihi miseris caelestia numina parcent. Nec semper laesos & sine fine premunt. Ovid. 3. de Pont.
Mens Lives are continued even while they sin: Patience endureth them: Time is vouchsafed them: Food and raiment, and Friends and Habitations, and health and ease and liberty is given them:1 The Sun sendeth them its moving influence, its Light, and Heat; The Earth supporteth them, and affordeth them fruit and maintenance and pleasure: The Clouds yield them rain; the Air breath; and the Sea it self is not unkind, and incommodious to them. Beasts, Birds and Fishes, and all inferior Creatures serve them! And yet much more mercy they receive from God.
Mens Lives are continued even while they sin: Patience endureth them: Time is vouchsafed them: Food and rayment, and Friends and Habitations, and health and ease and liberty is given them:1 The Sun sendeth them its moving influence, its Light, and Heat; The Earth supporteth them, and affordeth them fruit and maintenance and pleasure: The Clouds yield them rain; the Air breath; and the Sea it self is not unkind, and incommodious to them. Beasts, Birds and Fishes, and all inferiour Creatures serve them! And yet much more mercy they receive from God.