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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.
What juster Rule can there be than to suit all our actions to the perfect Law of Primitive Justice, and to do as we would be done by? What more effectual principle of Justice can there be, than Charity and Self-denial? to love all men for God, and to account our neighbours welfare as our own? Bring all men but to love their neighbours as themselves, and they will have little inclination to cruelty, oppression, fraud, or any other injuries. And when Heaven is made the reward of Justice and Mercy, and Hell the reward of Injustice and Cruelty, we have the greatest Motives that humane nature is capable of.
§. 11.1 The Christian Religion is the most excellent Rule for order and government in the world, and for the peace of Kingdoms and their stability: in that it prescribeth the only method of true Government, and condemneth both impiety and tyranny in the Governors, and all sedition and rebellion in the subjects.
§. 11.1 The Christian Religion is the most excellent Rule for order and government in the world, and for the peace of Kingdoms and their stability: in that it prescribeth the only method of true Government, and condemneth both impiety and tyranny in the Governours, and all sedition and rebellion in the subjects.
- 1Ordo in ecclesia ita statuit, ut alii sint oves, alii vero pastores: ita ut hi imperent, illi vero obediant: sitque hoc tanquam caput, illud pedes, illud manus, hoc oculi, illud vero aliud corporis membrum, quo omnia rectè inter se conveniant, commodumque tam ad praefectos, quam ad subditos redunder. Nazianz. Orde Modest. in Disput.