A27004:1086
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.
§. 14. And while I am in this doubt of God's reconciliation, I am ready still to fear, list present forbearance and mercy •rt a•i•val, and will end at last in greater misery: However I find it hard▪ if not impossible, to come to any certainty of […] pardon and salvation.
§. 14. And while I am in this doubt of God's reconciliation, I am ready still to fear, list present forbearance and mercy •rt a•i•val, and will end at last in greater misery: However I find it hard▪ if not impossible, to come to any certainty of 〈…〉 pardon and salvation.
§. 15. And while I am thus uncertain of pardon and the love of God, it must needs make it an insuperable difficulty to me, to love God above my self and all things: for to love a God that I think will damn me, or most probably may do it, for ought I know is a thing that man can hardly do.
§. 16.1 And therefore I cannot see how the guilty world can be sanctified, nor brought to forsake the sin and vanities which they love, as long as God, whom they must turn to by love, doth seem so unlovely to them.
§. 16.