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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
Part 2 › Chapter 4: Of the Nature and Properties of the Christian Religion.
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.
The chief thing in it which occasioneth the rebellion and displeasure of the world against it, is the purity and goodness of it, which is contrary to their sensual nature, and as Physic to their licentious lives: would it indulge their vices, and give them leave to sin, they could endure it.
The chief thing in it which occasioneth the rebellion and displeasure of the world against it, is the purity and goodness of it, which is contrary to their sensual nature, and as Physick to their licentious lives: would it indulge their vices, and give them leave to sin, they could endure it.
§. 3. Particularly it most vehemently condemneth the grand vices of Pride, Worldliness, and Sensuality, and all their polluting and pernicious fruits.
1. No Religion doth so much to teach men Humility, and make Pride appear an odious thing. It openeth the malignity of it, as it lifteth up the mind against God or Man: it condemneth it as Satan's image: it giveth us a multitude of humbling precepts and motives, and secondeth them all with the strangest example of condescension and lowliness in Christ that was ever presented to the view of man. Whereas I find even in the famousest of the Roman Heathens, that a great deal of pride was taken for a virtue, and men were instructed and exhorted to be proud, under pretence of maintaining and vindicating their honour; and true Humility was taken for disgraceful baseness, and men were driven from it by the scorn, not only of the vulgar, but of Philosophers themselves.
1. No Religion doth so much to teach men Humility, and make Pride appear an odious thing. It openeth the malignity of it, as it lifteth up the mind against God or Man: it condemneth it as Satans image: it giveth us a multitude of humbling precepts and motives, and secondeth them all with the strangest example of condescension and lowliness in Christ that was ever presented to the view of man. Whereas I find even in the famousest of the Roman Heathens, that a great deal of pride was taken for a virtue, and men were instructed and exhorted to be proud, under pretence of maintaining and vindicating their honour; and true Humility was taken for disgraceful baseness, and men were driven from it by the scorn, not only of the vulgar, but of Philosophers themselves.