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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.
There must be some infallible Judge to pass the final sentence, and hear all Causes, as it were, over again; and some perfect righteous Judge to set straight, all that mens unrighteousness made crooked; or else unrighteousness will finally prevail. And this must be God, who being the fountain of all Government, is also the end of all.
§. 16. XIII. If God be not the Supreme Universal Governor, there can be no unity and harmony in the moral Order and Government of the World.
§. 16. XIII. If God be not the Supreme Ʋniversal Governour, there can be no unity and harmony in the moral Order and Government of the World.
As all the Corporations in the Kingdom would be in continual discord with one another, if they were not all united in one King; so would all the Kingdoms of the World (much worse than they are) if they were not under the Government of one God.
§. 17. XIV. The last argument shall be à Jure & aptitudine: If Man be made a Creature to be morally Governed, and the undoubted Right and Aptitude, for supreme Government be in God alone, then God is actually the supreme Governor of the the World: But the antecedent is true, therefore the consequent.