A27004:1046
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.
§. 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.
For it is the same Law, which is, Regula Officii & Judicii: God will not condemn men for not believing a truth, which mediately or immediately was never revealed to them, and which they had no means to know: nor for not obeying a Law which was never promulgated to them, nor they could not come to be acquainted with: Physical impossibilities are not the matter of crimes, or of condemnation.
§. 19. If any persons are brought by these means alone to repent unfeignedly of an ungodly, uncharitable and intemperate life, and to love God unfeignedly as their God, above all; and to live a holy, obedient life: God will not condemn such persons, though they wanted supernatural Revelation of his will. (As I showed before §. 6.)