A27004:1073
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.
§. 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⟩inconveniences: but its as true,1 that their disease doth need a cure, for which it concerneth them to seek out. The life of man is held upon a constant uncertainty, and no man is sure to live another year: and therefore we have need of precepts so plain as may be easily and quickly learnt, that we may be always ready, if death shall call us to an account. I confess that what I have transcribed from nature is very plain there, to one that already understandeth it: but whether the diseased blindness of the world do not need yet something plainer, let experience determine.
It is true, that it is their own fault that causeth all these ⟨p. 195⟩inconveniencies: but its as true,1 that their disease doth need a cure, for which it concerneth them to seek out. The life of man is held upon a constant uncertainty, and no man is sure to live another year: and therefore we have need of precepts so plain as may be easily and quickly learnt, that we may be always ready, if death shall call us to an account. I confess that what I have transcribed from nature is very plain there, to one that already understandeth it: but whether the diseased blindness of the world do not need yet something plainer, let experience determine.