A27004:1385
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.
Answ. I pretend not to know by an infallible certainty the heart of any single individual person: But, 1. I have in such a course of effects as is mentioned before, great reason to be very confident of it, and no reason to deny it, concerning very many. A child cannot be infallibly certain that his father or mother loveth him, because he knoweth not the heart: But when he considereth of the ordinariness of natural affection, and hath always found such usage, as dearest love doth use to cause, he hath much reason to be confident of it, and none to deny it. 2. There may be a certainty that all conjunctly do not counterfeit, when you have no certainty of ⟨p. 300⟩any single individual. As I can be sure that all the mothers in the world do not counterfeit love to their children, though I cannot be certain of it in any individual.1
- 1Siquis hominem qui sanctus non est, sanctum esse crediderit, & Dei cum j•nxerit sucietati, Christum vio• […] membra […] Omnes […] Ch•ist• cor•u […]: Qui in Christi corpore errat & la•ctur dicens membrum ejus esse sanctum cum non sit, vel non sanctus cum fit, vide quali crimine obnoxius fiat. Hieron. in Phil.Siquis hominem qui sanctus non est, sanctum esse crediderit, & Dei cum j•nxerit sucietati, Christum vio• 〈…〉 membra 〈…〉 Omnes 〈…〉 Ch•ist• cor•u 〈…〉: Qui in Christi corpore errat & la•ctur dicens membrum ejus esse sanctum cum non sit, vel non sanctus cum fit, vide quali crimine obnoxius fiat. Hieron. in Phil.