A27004:1802
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.
3. The Lord Jesus Christ did purposely die and rise again in his humane body, to put the Resurrection out of doubt, by undeniable ocular demonstration, and by the certainty of belief.
3. The Lord Jesus Christ did purposely die and rise again in his humane body, to put the Resurrection out of doubt, by undenyable ocular demonstration, and by the certainty of belief.
4. There is some Natural Reason for the Resurrection in the Souls inclination to its Body. As it is unwilling to lay it down, it will be willing to reassume it, when God shall say, The time is come. As we may conclude at night when they are going to bed, that the people of City and Country will rise the next morning, and put on their Clothes, and not go naked about the streets, because there is in them a Natural inclination to rising and to clothes, and a natural averseness to lie still or to go unclothed; so may we conclude from the souls natural inclination to its body, that it will reassume it as soon as God consenteth.
4. There is some Natural Reason for the Resurrection in the Souls inclination to its Body. As it is unwilling to lay it down, it will be willing to reassume it, when God shall say, The time is come. As we may conclude at night when they are going to bed, that the people of City and Countrey will rise the next morning, and put on their Cloaths, and not go naked about the streets, because there is in them a Natural inclination to rising and to cloaths, and a natural aversness to lie still or to go uncloathed; so may we conclude from the souls natural inclination to its body, that it will reassume it as soon as God consenteth.