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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.
§. 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.
§. 10. The means which Nature teacheth all the World, to suppress iniquity, and promote well-doing, is by Punishments and Benefits, that it may turn to the hurt of the evil-doer himself, and to the benefit of the Well-doer.