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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.
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.
§. 12. And whereas God's special mercy and grace is necessary to so great a change and cure, and this grace is forfeited by sin, and every sin deserveth more punishment, and this sin and punishment must be so far forgiven before God can give us that grace which we have forfeited, Nature doth not satisfactorily teach me, how God is so far reconciled to Man, nor how ⟨p. 197⟩the forgiveness of sin may be by us so far procured.1
- 1Multa miser metui quia seei multa proterve Idem. In malis sperare bonum, nosy innocens nemo solet. Senec.Multa miser metui quia seei multa proterve Idem. In malis sperare bonum, nosi innocens nemo solet. Senec.