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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
Part 1 › Chapter 6: Of GOD as RELATED to his Creatures: especially to Man. And I. as his OWNER.
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.
CHAP. VI. Of GOD as RELATED to his Creatures: especially to Man. And I. as his OWNER.
Passing by all that is doubtful, and controverted among men truly Rational, and taking before me only that which is certain, undeniable, and clear, and wherein my own Soul is past all doubt, I shall proceed in the same method secundum ordinem cognoscendi, non essendi. The word [GOD] doth not only signify all that I have been proving, viz. 1The perfect nature of the first Cause, but also his Relations to us his Creatures: And therefore till I have opened and proved those Relations, I have done but part of my work, to prove that THERE IS A GOD.
PAssing by all that is doubtfull, and controverted among men truly Rational, and taking before me only that which is certain, undenyable, and clear, and wherein my own Soul is past all doubt, I shall proceed in the same method secundum ordinem cognoscendi, non essendi. The word [GOD] doth not only signifie all that I have been proving, viz. 1The perfect nature of the first Cause, but also his Relations to us his Creatures: And therefore till I have opened and proved those Relations, I have done but part of my work, to prove that THERE IS A GOD.
- 1Read the proofs of the Deity, and of Providence at large in Cicer. de nat. Deor. lib. 2. by Balbus.
§. 1. GOD having produced Man (and all the World) by his Power, Understanding and Will, is by immediate resultancy Related to him as his CREATOR.