A27004:1071
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.
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.
Answ. Certainly clearness is more desirable than obscurity, and concord and unity than division; Therefore it concerneth us to enquire how this mischief may be amended, which is it that I am now about.
§. 5. These difficulties also make it so long a work, to learn God's will by the light of Nature only, that the time of their youth, and oft of their lives, is slipped away, before men can come to know why they lived.
§. 5. These difficulties also make it so long a work, to learn God's will by the light of Nature only, that the time of their youth, and oft of their lives, is slipt away, before men can come to know why they lived.
It is true, that it is their own fault that causeth all these ⟨p. 195⟩