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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.
and have one in their nature that hath risen from the dead, to be in possession of the glory which they are going to, and thence to send down his Spirit to sanctify them, and fit them for Heaven; and afterward to be their Judge, and to receive them unto blessedness: and that sinners now be not condemned merely for want of innocency, but for rejecting the grace and mercy which would have saved them: that we ⟨p. 270⟩have all this taught us by a Messenger from Heaven,1 and a perfect rule of life delivered to us by him, and all this sealed by a Divine attestation: that this doctrine is suited to the capacity of the weakest, and yet so mysterious as to exercise the strongest wits: and is delivered to us, not by an imposing force, but by the exhortations and persuasions of men like our selves, commissioned to open the evidences of truth and necessity in the Gospel: All this is no less than the Image and wonderful effect of the Wisdom of God.
and have one in their nature that hath risen from the dead, to be in possession of the glory which they are going to, and thence to send down his Spirit to sanctifie them, and fit them for Heaven; and afterward to be their Judge, and to receive them unto blessedness: and that sinners now be not condemned meerly for want of innocency, but for rejecting the grace and mercy which would have saved them: that we ⟨p. 270⟩have all this taught us by a Messenger from Heaven,1 and a perfect rule of life delivered to us by him, and all this sealed by a Divine attestation: that this doctrin is suited to the capacity of the weakest, and yet so mysterious as to exercise the strongest wits: and is delivered to us, not by an imposing force, but by the exhortations and perswasions of men like our selves, commissioned to open the evidences of truth and necessity in the Gospel: All this is no less than the Image and wonderful effect of the Wisdom of God.
- 1Diligence Lector intelliget unam faciem esse Eloquiorum Sacrorum; cum distincte considerabit, quid sit admonitio, quid sit preceptum, quid prohibitio, quid remissio; & haec nec se invicem impugnare, nec à seipsis distare; sed in omnibus sanitatis remed um moderare. Hildebert. Canoman. Epist. 83. argum.