A27004:1620
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.
§. 4. IV. It much confirmeth me to find that there is no other Religion professed in the World, that an impartial rational man can rest in.
§. 4. IV. It much confirmeth me to finde that there is no other Religion professed in the World, that an impartial rational man can rest in.
That man is made for another life, the light of Nature proveth to all men: And some way or other there must be opened to us to attain it: Mohammedanism I think not worthy a confutation. Judaism must be much beholden to Christianity for its proofs, and is but the introduction to it, inclusively considered. The Heathens or mere Naturalists are so blind, so idolatrous, so divided into innumerable sects, so lost and bewildered in uncertainties, and show us so little holy fruit of their Theology, that I can incline to no more than to take those natural Verities which they confess, and which they cast among the rubbish of their fopperies and wickedness, and to wipe them clean, and take them ⟨p. 353⟩for some part of my Religion. Christianity or nothing is the way.
That man is made for another life, the light of Nature proveth to all men: And some way or other there must be opened to us to attain it: Mahometanisme I think not worthy a confutation. Judaisme must be much beholden to Christianity for its proofs, and is but the introduction to it, inclusively considered. The Heathens or meer Naturalists are so blinde, so idolatrous, so divided into innumerable sects, so lost and bewildred in uncertainties, and shew us so little holy fruit of their Theology, that I can incline to no more than to take those natural Verities which they confess, and which they cast among the rubbish of their fopperies and wickedness, and to wipe them clean, and take them ⟨p. 353⟩for some part of my Religion. Christianity or nothing is the way.