A27004:1617
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 2 › Chapter 8: Of some other subservient and Collateral Arguments for the Christian Verity.
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.
This I have opened, and proved before; and he is a stranger to the World and to himself, that seeth it not: Were it not lest I weary the Reader with length, how fully and plainly could I manifest it?
§. 3. III. The certain observation of the universal Spiritual War, which hath been carried on according to the first Gospel, between the Woman's and the Serpent's seed, doth much confirm me of the truth of the Scriptures.
§. 3. III. The certain observation of the universal Spiritual Warre, which hath been carryed on according to the first Gospel, between the Woman's and the Serpent's seed, doth much confirm me of the truth of the Scriptures.
1Such a contrariety there is, even between Cain and Abel, Children of the same Father; such an implacable enmity throughout all the World, in almost all wicked men against Godliness it self, and those that sincerely love and follow it; such a hatred in those that are Orthodoxly bred, against the true power, use and practice, of the Religion which they themselves profess; such a resolute resistance of all that is seriously good and holy, and tendeth but to the saving of the resisters; that it is but a public visible acting of all those things which the Scripture speaketh of; and a fulfilling them in all ages and places in the sight of all the World. Of which having treated largely in my Treatise against Infidelity, of the sin against the Holy Ghost, I refer you thither.
1Such a contrariety there is, even between Cain and Abel, Children of the same Father; such an implacable enmity throughout all the World, in almost all wicked men against Godliness it self, and those that sincerely love and follow it; such a hatred in those that are Orthodoxly bred, against the true power, use and practice, of the Religion which they themselves profess; such a resolute resistance of all that is seriously good and holy, and tendeth but to the saving of the resisters; that it is but a publick visible acting of all those things which the Scripture speaketh of; and a fulfilling them in all ages and places in the sight of all the World. Of which having treated largely in my Treatise against Infidelity, of the sin against the Holy Ghost, I referre you thither.