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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.
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.
- 1When Piso in Cicero seeketh after the summum bonum, he proceedeth by these steps, 1. Omnem naturam esse sui conservatricem. Neminem esse qui ipse se oderit. 2. Neminem esse qui quomodo se habeat, nihil sua censeat interesse: 3. Hominum é corpore & animo constare, primasque animi partes esse, & secundas corporis. 4. Animum aliquid agere semper, neque ulla conditione quietem sempiteinam posse pati. 5. Bona esse quae naturae conveniunt, camque perficiunt. 6. Animi duo genera esse virtutum; 1 Naturales, viz. docilitas, memoria, ingenium: 2 Voluntarias quae in Voluntate posita magis proprio nomine virtutes appellantur. 7. In prima Class maxim excellens, confiderationem & cognitionem coelestium. 8. Virtutes autem voluntatis esse praestantissimas. 9. Et ita concludit, Virtutem esse maxime expetendam, This is the sum of the lib. 5. de Finib.When Piso in Cicero seeketh after the summum bonum, he proceedeth by these steps, 1. Omnem naturam esse sui conservatricem. Neminem esse qui ipse se oderit. 2. Neminem esse qui quomodo se habeat, nihil sua censeat interesse: 3. Hominum é corpore & animo constare, primasque animi partes esse, & secundas corporis. 4. Animum aliquid agere semper, neque ulla conditione quietem sempiteinam posse pati. 5. Bona esse quae naturae conveniunt, camque perficiunt. 6. Animi duo genera esse virtutum; 1 Naturales, viz. docilitas, memoria, ingenium: 2 Voluntarias quae in Voluntate posita magis proprio nomine virtutes appellantur. 7. In prima Classe maxime excellens, confiderationem & cognitionem coelestium. 8. Virtutes autem voluntatis esse praestantissimas. 9. Et ita concludit, Virtutem esse maxime expetendam, This is the summ of the lib. 5. de Finib.