A27004:1062
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 all this is legible in Nature, which I have thence transcribed; yet if I had not had another Teacher, I know not whether ever I should have found it there. Nature is now a very hard book: when I have learnt it by my Teachers help, I can tell partly what is there: but at the first perusal, I could not understand it. It requireth a great deal of time, and study, and help to understand that, which when we do understand it, is as plain to us as the high-way.
§. 3. Thence it must needs follow, 1that it will be but few that will attain to understand the necessary parts of the Law of Nature aright, by that means alone; and the multitude will be lest in darkness still.
- 1What difficulties the wisest Heathens find about God's prospering the wicked, and afflicting the good. And how dark were they about the life to come? Therefore Seneca's wise and good man was a Phoenix. Sine doctrina siquid been dicitur, adjuvante naturâ, tamen id quia fortuito fit, semper paratum esse non potest. Cic. de Or. Etsi ingeniis magnis praediti quidam, dicendi copiam sine ratione consequuntur. ars tamen dux certior est quàm natura. Aliud enim est poetarum more verba fundere, aliud, ea quae dicas ratione & arte distinguere. Cic. de sin. 4.What difficulties the wisest Heathens find about God's prospering the wicked, and afflicting the good. And how dark were they about the life to come? Therefore Seneca's wise and good man was a Phoenix. Sine doctrina siquid bene dicitur, adjuvante naturâ, tamen id quia fortuito fit, semper paratum esse non potest. Cic. de Or. Etsi ingeniis magnis praediti quidam, dicendi copiam sine ratione consequuntur. ars tamen dux certior est quàm natura. Aliud enim est poetarum more verba fundere, aliud, ea quae dicas ratione & arte distinguere. Cic. de sin. 4.