A27004:164
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 1 › Chapter 4: Of Man, and other things, as produced by their first Cause.
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.
For every one seeth that Man hath his beginning, and confesseth that it is but as yesterday since he was not; and therefore hath a Cause which must be uncaused, or have a Cause it self: if the latter, then that Cause again is uncaused, or hath a Cause it self. And so we must needs come at last to some uncaused cause.
§. 10. If any second Cause had made Man or the World, yet if it did it but as a caused Cause, it self would lead us up to an uncaused Cause, which is the first Cause of all, which we are seeking after.
1For what any Cause doth by a power received from a higher Cause, and consequently ordered by it, that is done principally by that first or highest Cause. And if God had made the world by an Angel or Intelligence, it would have been nevertheless his Creature, nor any thing the less to his honour than if he had made it by himself alone.
- 1Esse igitur Deos perspicuum est: ut id qui neget, vix cum sanae mentis existinem. Cicer, de Nat. Deor. 2.