A27004:1714
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.
§. 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;1 which keep out reforming truths.
- 1Magni autem est ingenii, revocare mentem a sensibus, & cogitationem a consuetudine abducere. Cicero Tuscul. Qu. l. 1. p. 222.
§. 40. 5. It is very natural to incorporated Souls, to desire a sensible way of satisfaction, and to take up with things present and seen, and to be little affected with things unseen, and above our senses.
§. 41. 6 Our strangeness to the Language, Idioms, Proverbial speeches then used, doth disadvantage us as to the understanding of the Scriptures.
§. 41. 6 Our strangeness to the Language, Idiomes, Proverbial speeches then used, doth disadvantage us as to the understanding of the Scriptures.