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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.
§. 9. And it is exceeding congruous to mans necessity, who is fallen under the power and fears of death, as well as the doubts and estrangedness to the other world, that he that will save and heal us, do himself in our nature rise from the dead, and ascend up into heaven, to give us thereby a visible demonstration, that indeed there is a Resurrection and a life to come for us to look for.
§. 9. And it is exceeding congruous to mans necessity, who is faln under the power and fears of death, as well as the doubts and estrangedness to the other world, that he that will save and heal us, do himself in our nature rise from the dead, and ascend up into heaven, to give us thereby a visible demonstration, that indeed there is a Resurrection and a life to come for us to look for.
Though God was not obliged to do thus much for us, yet Reason telleth us, that if he will do it, it is very suitable to our necessities. For all the reasonings in the world do not satisfy in such things, so much as ocular demonstration: when we either see a man that is risen from the dead, or have certain testimony of it, it facilitateth the belief of our own resurrection: and he that is gone into Heaven before us, assureth us that a Heaven there is.
Though God was not obliged to do thus much for us, yet Reason telleth us, that if he will do it, it is very suitable to our necessities. For all the reasonings in the world do not satisfie in such things, so much as ocular demonstration: when we either see a man that is risen from the dead, or have certain testimony of it, it facilitateth the belief of our own resurrection: and he that is gone into Heaven before us, assureth us that a Heaven there is.
§. 10. When God in mercy would forgive and save a sinful people, it was very congruous to reason, that there should be some fit means provided, to demonstrate his holiness in his justice, and to vindicate the honour of his Laws and Government, and so to secure the ends of both.