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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.
§. 11. And though Nature tell me that God cannot damn or hate a Soul that truly loveth him, and is sanctified, yet doth it not show me a means that is likely considerably to prevail to sanctify Souls, and turn them from the love of present transitory things, to the love of God and Life eternal.
§. 11. And though Nature tell me that God cannot damn or hate a Soul that truly loveth him, and is sanctified, yet doth it not shew me a means that is likely considerably to prevail to sanctifie Souls, and turn them from the love of present transitory things, to the love of God and Life eternal.
Though there be in nature the discovery of sufficient Reasons and Motives to do it,1 where Reason is not in captivity; yet how unlikely they are to prevail with others, both Reason and Experience fully testify.
Though there be in nature the discovery of sufficient Reasons and Motives to do it,1 where Reason is not in captivity; yet how unlikely they are to prevail with others, both Reason and Experience fully testifie.
- 1Omne nefas, omnemque mali purgamine causam Credebant nostri tollere posse seen, &c. Ah! nimium faciles, qui tristia crimina caedis Fulmineâ tolli posse putatis aquâ. Ovid. 2. Fast.Omne nefas, omnemque mali purgamine causam Credebant nostri tollere posse sene, &c. Ah! nimium faciles, qui tristia crimina caedis Fulmineâ tolli posse putatis aquâ. Ovid. 2. Fast.