A27004:1079
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.
§. 8. While we are thus stopped in our way by tediousness, difficulty, and a subjective uncertainty about the end and duty of man, the flesh is still active, and sin increaseth and gets advantage, and present things are still in their deceiving power; and so the Soul groweth worse and worse.
§. 8. While we are thus scopt in our way by tediousness, difficulty, and a subjective uncertainty about the end and duty of man, the flesh is still active, and sin encreaseth and gets advantage, and present things are still in their deceiving power; and so the Soul groweth worse and worse.
1§. 9. The Soul being thus vitiated and perverted by sin, is so partial, slothful, negligent, unwilling, superficial, deceitful, and •us•d•n in its studies, that if the evidences of life everlasting best, and clear, and satisfying to others, it will over-look them, or not perceive their certainty.
1§. 9. The Soul being thus vitiated and perverted by sin, is so partial, slothful, negligent, unwilling, superficial, deceitful, and •us•d•n in its studies, that if the evidences of life everlasting bes•, and clear, and satisfying to others, it will over-look them, or not perceive their certainty.
- 1O curvae in terris animae, & coelestium inanes! Quid juvat hoc, templis nostros immittere mores? Et bona Diis ex hac scelerata ducere pulpâ? Persius. Non bove mactato coelestia numina gaudent: Sed quae praestanda est, & sine teste fides. Ovid. ep. 9.