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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§. 9. The very command of God to use his appointed means for mens recovery, doth imply that it shall not be in vain, and doth not only show a possibility, but so great a hopefulness of the success to the obedient, as may encourage them cheerfully to undertake it, and carry it through.
1§. 9. The very command of God to use his appointed means for mens recovery, doth imply that it shall not be in vain, and doth not only shew a possibility, but so great a hopefulness of the success to the obedient, as may encourage them cheerfully to undertake it, and carry it through.
- 1Omnibus natura dedit fundamenta semenque virtutum. Se•. ep. 110.
No man that is wise and merciful, will appoint his subject a course of means to be used, for a thing impossible to be got: or will say, Labour thus all thy life for it, but thou shalt be never the nearer it, if thou do. If such an Omniscient Physician do but bid me use such means for my cure and health, I may take his command for half a promise, if I obey.
1§. 10. Conscience doth bear witness against impenitent sinners, that the cause of their sin, and the hinderance of their recovery is in themselves; and that God is not unwilling to forgive and save them, if they were but meet for forgiveness and salvation.
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