A27004:1069
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
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§. 4. These difficulties in the mere natural way of Revelation, will fill the learned world with controversies: and those controversies will breed and feed contentions, and eat out the heart of practical godliness, and make all Religion seem an uncertain or unnecessary thing.
§. 4. These difficulties in the meer natural way of Revelation, will fill the learned world with controversies: and those controversies will breed and feed contentions, and eat out the heart of practical godliness, and make all Religion seem an uncertain or unnecessary thing.
This is undoubtedly proved, 1. In the reason of the thing. 2. And in all the worlds experience: so numerous were the controversies among Philosophers, so various their Sects, so common their contentions, that the world despised them, and all Religion for their sakes, and looked on most of them but as Mountebanks, that set up for gain, or to get Disciples, or to show their wit: Practical piety died in their hands.
This is undoubtedly proved, 1. In the reason of the thing. 2. And in all the worlds experience: so numerous were the controversies among Philosophers, so various their Sects, so common their contentions, that the world despised them, and all Religion for their sakes, and look'd on most of them but as Mountebanks, that set up for gain, or to get Disciples, or to shew their wit: Practical piety died in their hands.
Obj. This is a consequent not to be avoided, because no way hath so resolved difficulties, as to put an end to controversies and sects.