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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.
Answ. Because the absolute perfection of his Nature is instead of a Law to God, who hath no Superior. But man hath a Superior, and hath an imperfect nature, which is therefore to be regulated by the wisdom and will of that perfect Superior.
Answ. Because the absolute perfection of his Nature is instead of a Law to God, who hath no Superiour. But man hath a Superiour, and hath an imperfect nature, which is therefore to be regulated by the wisdom and will of that perfect Superiour.
And moreover, if Man have reason and wisdom above a Beast, which maketh him capable of knowing Right and Wrong, and of being moved by the things that are evident to reason, though not to sense; and if he be made to be governed by Laws, (as was proved before) then he is certainly governed accordingly; or else his nature and reason were given him in vain, which could not be by the most wise Creator.
Obj. God governeth the world as the Soul governeth the Body, which is rationally ex parte animae; but not by giving reason or laws to the Body: but despotically by the natural power of the Will.