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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.
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.)
§. 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 shewed before §. 6.)
§. 20.1 When sinners stand at many degrees distant from God and a holy life, and mercy would draw them nearer him by degrees, they that have help and mercy sufficient in suo genere, to have drawn them nearer God, and refused to obey it, do forfeit the further helps of mercy, and may justly perish and be forsaken by him; though their help was not immediately sufficient to all the further degrees of duty which they were to do.
- 1Sunt enim ingeniis nostris semina innata virtutum, quae si adolescere liceret, ipsa nos ad beatam vitam natura perduceret. Nunc autem simul ac editi sumus in lucem, in omni continuo pravitate versamur, &c. Cic. 3. Tuscul. N.B. That when Philosophers say, That all is good which Nature teacheth, &c. they mean by Nature, the true and sound constitution of the Soul, which they distinguish from its diseases and corruption.