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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.
CHAP. VII. I. Of Man's Relation to God his OWNER.
1§. 1. GOD being our undoubted, absolute OWNER, it followeth undeniably that we are His own.
- 1Prima pietat's magistra natura est. Cic.
The Relations are mutual, and the thing needeth no proof.
1§. 2. Therefore Man being an intelligent Creature, that can know this his Relation to his Maker, is bound by Nature to consent to it, and absolutely resign himself to the will, dispose and use of his Creator.
- 1Omnis est Deorum vita beata, hominem autem quatenus in ea lucet quoddam ejus actionis exemplat. Aristot. Eth. 10. c. 8.