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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.
4. From the power of sensitive objects: The baits of sense are so numerous, so near and so powerful, that they would bear down reason in the most, without the help of Laws: nay, Laws themselves, even of God and Man, do so little with the most, as tell us what they would be without them.
5. The variety of mens minds and interests and dispositions is such, as that the world ungoverned would be utterly in confusion: as many minds and ways as men. No two men are in all things of the same apprehensions.
6. From the nature of mans powers: He is a noble creature, and therefore hath answerable ends to be attained, and therefore must have the conduct of answerable means. He is a rational free Agent, and therefore must have his End and Means proposed to his Reason, and is not to be moved by Sense alone; his chiefest End as well as his chief Governor, being out of his sight.
6. From the nature of mans powers: He is a noble creature, and therefore hath answerable ends to be attain'd, and therefore must have the conduct of answerable means. He is a rational free Agent, and therefore must have his End and Means proposed to his Reason, and is not to be moved by Sense alone; his chiefest End as well as his chief Governour, being out of his sight.