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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.
Though we see not God, (which would sure put an end to the controversy whether we should be sensual or holy) yet while we have a glass as big as all the world, which doth continually represent him to us, one would think that no reasonable creature should so much over-look him, as to be carried from him with the trifles of this world.
Though we see not God, (which would sure put an end to the controversie whether we should be sensual or holy) yet while we have a glass as big as all the world, which doth continually represent him to us, one would think that no reasonable creature should so much over-look him, as to be carried from him with the trifles of this world.
§. 17. Men that have not only the foresaid obligations, to Holiness, Justice and Sobriety in their natures, but also all these Hopes, and Helps, and Means of their recovery from sin to God, and yet frustrate all, and continue in ungodliness, unrighteousness, or intemperance, impenitently to the end, are utterly destitute of all just excuse, why God should not punish them with endless misery: which is the case of all that perish.
§. 18. All men shall be judged by the Law which was given them of God to live by.