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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.
§. 36. III But no Impediments of Faith are so great, as those within us. As 1. the natural strangeness of all corrupted minds to God, and their blindness in all spiritual things.
§. 36. III But no Impediments of Faith are so great, as those within us. As 1. the natural strangeness of all corrupted mindes to God, and their blindeness in all spiritual things.
§. 37. 2. Most persons in the World, have weak, injudicious, unfurnished heads, wanting the common, natural preparatives to Faith, not able to see the force of a reason, in things beyond the reach of sense.
§. 38. 3. The carnal mind is enmity against the Holiness of Christianity, and therefore will still oppose the receiving of its principles.
§. 38. 3. The carnal minde is enmity against the Holiness of Christianity, and therefore will still oppose the receiving of its principles.
§. 39. 4. By the advantages of Nature, Education, Custom, and Company, men are early possest with prejudices and false conceits, against a life of Faith and Holiness;