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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.
For no man can have more title to any thing else than to himself. He that is not Owner of himself, is Owner of Nothing. And we have not any thing, nor can have, which is not as much from God as we, and therefore is not as much his.
§. 7. Therefore no man should repine at God's disposal of him, but all men should acquiesce in the disposing-will of God.
For it is unreasonable and unjust to murmur at God, for doing as he list with his own, and using any thing to his ends.
§. 8. And therefore all men should avoid all selfish affections, and partiality, and be more affected with God's interest than their own.
For we are not so much our Own as his, and our interest is not considerable in comparison of his.