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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.
For though the infinite goodness of God be our chief encouragement, yet seeing he is holy and just, and we are sinners, we have need of a mediate encouragement, and of such condescending love as is come near unto us, and hath taken up our nature already into heaven. A Saviour that hath been on earth in flesh; that hath died, and rose, and revived, and is now in the possession of Blessedness, is a great emboldener of our thoughts, when we look towards another world; which else we should think of with more doubting, fearful and unwilling minds. To have a friend gone before us, who is so Powerful, so Good, and hath made us his Interest; to think that he is Lord of the world that we are going to, and hath undertaken to receive us to himself when we go hence, is a great reviving to our amazed, fearful,1 departing souls.
For though the infinite goodness of God be our chief encouragement, yet seeing he is holy and just, and we are sinners, we have need of a mediate encouragement, and of such condescending love as is come near unto us, and hath taken up our nature already into heaven. A Saviour that hath been on earth in flesh; that hath died, and rose, and revived, and is now in the possession of Blessedness, is a great emboldner of our thoughts, when we look towards another world; which else we should think of with more doubting, fearful and unwilling minds. To have a friend gone before us, who is so Powerful, so Good, and hath made us his Interest; to think that he is Lord of the world that we are going to, and hath undertaken to receive us to himself when we go hence, is a great reviving to our amazed, fearful,1 departing souls.
- 1Perturbation temporum eos etiam qui vero judicio nullius criminis convinci queunt, maximis involvi criminibus haud est veri dissimile. Pachymer. l. 1.Perturbatione temporum eos etiam qui vero judicio nullius criminis convinci queunt, maximis involvi criminibus haud est veri dissimile. Pachymer. l. 1.