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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.
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.
- 1Homines ad Deos nulla re propius accedunt, quàm salutem homonibus dando Nihil habet fortuna majus quàm ut possit▪ nec natura melius quàm ut velit, servare. Cic. p•o Ligar. Notitia peccati, initium salutos. S•n. Saith Epictetus, as our Parents deliver us to School-masters to be nurtured, so God delivereth us to our Consciences, whose nature is not to be to temned.Homines ad Deos nulla re propius accedunt, quàm salutem homonibus dando Nihil habet fortuna majus quàm ut possit▪ nec natura melius quàm ut velit, servare. Cic. p•o Ligar. Notitia peccati, initium salutos. S•n. Sa•th Epictetus, as our Parents deliver us to School-masters to be nurtured, so God delivereth us to our Consciences, whose nature is not to be to temned.