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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. He denieth all the Laws of Nature: for where there is no Government, there are no Laws.
5. He denieth the Virtue of Obedience, and all other Virtues concatenated with it: for where there is no Government,1 there is no Obedience.
- 1Fundamentum libertatis, fons aequitatis, mens & animus & consilium, sententia civitatis posita in legibus. Cic.
6. He denieth that there is any such a thing as sin, or any fault against God or Man: for where there is no Government, there is no transgression. Both the vicious Habits and the ⟨p. 42⟩Acts,1 will have no more crime than the poison of a Toad.
- 1Atqui si natura confirmatum jus non erit, virtutes omnes tollantur: ubi enim liberalitas? ubi patriae caritas? ubi pietas? ubi aut bene merendi de altero, aut referendae gratiae voluntas, poterit existere? Nam haec nascuntur ex co qued naturà propensi sumus ad diligendos homines, quod fundamentum juris est. Neque solum in homines obsequia, sed etiam in Deos Ceremoniae Religionesque tolluntur, quas non metu, sed eâ conjunctione, quae est homini cum Deo, conservandas puto. Cic. de leg. 1. p. 225.