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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.
§. 13. If God govern not the world, then mere Communities are uncapable of Right or Wrong, 1and no man is bound in duty to spare his brother's life or state. But ⟨p. 52⟩the Consequent is false: therefore so is the Antecedent.
§. 13. If God govern not the world, then meer Communities are uncapable of Right or Wrong, 1and no man is bound in duty to spare his brother's life or state. But ⟨p. 52⟩the Consequent is false: therefore so is the Antecedent.
- 1Par & aequum Legibus acceptum far debetis. Demosth.Par & aequum Legibus acceptum ferre debetis. Demosth.
1By a Community I mean a company of men that have yet set up no Government among them: If God be not their Governor, such have none at all, and so are under no moral obligation: for Covenants themselves cannot bind, if there be no superior obligation, requiring man to stand to his Covenants.
1By a Community I mean a company of men that have yet set up no Government among them: If God be not their Governour, such have none at all, and so are under no moral obligation: for Covenants themselves cannot bind, if there be no superiour obligation, requiring man to stand to his Covenants.
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