A27004:1036
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.
§. 11. God hath planted in the common nature of mankind an inseparable inclination to Truth as Truth, and to Good as Good, and a Love to themselves, and a desire to be happy, and a loathness to be miserable; together with some reverence and honour of God, (till they have extinguished the belief of his being) and a hatred and horror of the Devil, (while they believe he is): All which are a fit Stock to plant Reforming-truths ⟨p. 187⟩in, and Principles fit to be improved for mens conversion, 1and the excitation and improvement of them, is much of that recovering work.
§. 11. God hath planted in the common nature of mankind an inseparable inclination to Truth as Truth, and to Good as Good, and a Love to themselves, and a desire to be happy, and a lothness to be miserable; together with some reverence and honour of God, (till they have extinguished the belief of his being) and a hatred and horrour of the Devil, (while they believe he is): All which are a fit Stock to plant Reforming-truths ⟨p. 187⟩in, and Principles fit to be improved for mens conversion, 1and the excitation and improvement of them, is much of that recovering work.
- 1Nemo adeo ferus est▪ ut non mitescere possit Si modo culturae patientem commodet aurem. Horat. ep. 1. Miserum te esse judico▪ qui nunquam fueris miser: traxisti sine adversario vitam: Opus est ad sui not tiam experimento. Quid quisque possit non nisi tentando didicit Sen. de pro. Non omnino Diis exosos esse, qui in hac vita cum aerumnarum varietate luctantur; sed esse arcanas causas, &c. Macrob. l. 1. Saturn. Rem pateris modicam & mediocri bile ferendam Si flectas oculos majora ad crimina — Juven.