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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.
§. 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.
§. 16.1 And therefore I cannot see how the guilty world can be sanctifi'd, 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.
- 1Turpe est quicquans mali perpetrare: bene autem agere nullo periculo proposito, multorum est: id vero proprium boni viri est, etiam cum periculo suo honestatem in agentem sequi. Plut. in Mario. At mens sibi conscia facti Praemetuens, adhibet stimulos, terrerque flagellis: Nec videt interea qui terminus esse malorum Possit, nec qui sit poenarum denique finis. Atque eadem metuic magis haecne in morte gravescant. Lucret. 3.
§. 17. And every temptation from present pleasure, commodity or honour, will be like to prevail, while the love of God, and the happiness to come, are so dark and doubtful, to guilty, misgiving ignorant Souls.
§. 18. Nor can I see by Nature how a sinner can live comfortably in the world, for want of clearer assurance of his future happiness.