A27004:1633
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.
§. 10. X. When I deeply consider the evidence of verity in the Gospel, it hath as much to convince me, as I could have chosen or desired.
§. 11. 1. If I had been put myself to choose by what means God should open to man the things of the unseen world, I could have desired no more than that a messenger might come to us from heaven to tell it us; unless we had either sight and sense, or immediate vision and fruition.
And I am fully satisfied, 1. That spiritual things are invisible, and are no objects of corporeal sense. 2. That it is not meet and honourable to God's Wisdom and Justice, to govern rational free Agents in via, by sight and sense. It would be no trial, or thanks to the most sensual wretch, to forbear his sin, if Heaven and Hell were open to his sight. 3. That spiritual vision, and fruition is our state in patriâ; our end and perfection, and not fit for the state of trial and travellers in the way.
§. 12. 2. If I had been to choose who this Messenger should be, I could have preferred none before him, who is the very Wisdom, Truth, and Word of God.