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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 1 › Chapter 3: Of Men as mutually Related to each other.
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.
Those that think they are bound to avoid hurting no man but themselves or for themselves, nor to do good to any but themselves or for themselves, have so far obliterated the Laws of Humanity, and so openly renounce the benefits of Society, and bid defiance to Mankind, that I suppose them so few that I need not dispute against them: Nor have I ever met with any defender of so inhumane a Cause, whatever may be in their hearts and practice.
Those that think they are bound to avoid hurting no man but themselves or for themselves, nor to do good to any but themselves or for themselves, have so far obliterated the Laws of Humanity, and so openly renounce the benefits of Society, and bid defiance to Mankinde, that I suppose them so few that I need not dispute against them: Nor have I ever met with any defender of so inhumane a Cause, whatever may be in their hearts and practice.
§. 9. Nature teacheth Parents to educate their children in sobriety, obedience, justice and charity; and to restrain their contraries.
Did Parents make no difference between their Children's temperance and gluttony, drunkenness and unchastity, between their obedience and disobedience, and contempt of their own authority; between actions of Justice and Charity, and actions of falsehood, robbery, cruelty, and inhumanity, what a degenerate thing would Mankind prove? even Cannibals exercise some government over their Children.
Did Parents make no difference between their Childrens temperance and gluttony, drunkenness and unchastity, between their obedience and disobedience, and contempt of their own authority; between actions of Justice and Charity, and actions of falshood, robbery, cruelty, and inhumanity, what a degenerate thing would Mankinde prove? even Cannibals exercise some government over their Children.