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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.
1. That God only is Able, is undeniable: Men can govern but their particular Provinces or Empires: and none of them is capable of Governing all the World, for want of Omnipresence, Omnipotency, and Omniscience: And therefore the Pope that claimeth the Government of all the World, if all turn Christians, doth thereby pretend to a kind of Deity. And if Angels were proved able to govern the Earth, it can be but as Officers, and not in absolute supremacy:1 For who then shall be the Governor of them: Their being is merely derivative and dependent; and therefore so must be their power. God only is all sufficient, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, and most good: Sufficient to give perfect Laws to all; to execute righteous Judgement upon all; and to protect the World as his Dominion: when Princes cannot protect one Kingdom, nor themselves.
1. That God only is Able, is undenyable: Men can govern but their particular Provinces or Empires: and none of them is capable of Governing all the World, for want of Omnipresence, Omnipotency, and Omniscience: And therefore the Pope that claimeth the Government of all the World, if all turn Christians, doth thereby pretend to a kinde of Deity. And if Angels were proved able to govern the Earth, it can be but as Officers, and not in absolute supremacy:1 For who then shall be the Governour of them: Their being is meerly derivative and dependent; and therefore so must be their power. God only is all sufficient, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, and most good: Sufficient to give perfect Laws to all; to execute righteous Judgement upon all; and to protect the World as his Dominion: when Princes cannot protect one Kingdom, nor themselves.
- 1Atticus in Cicer. de leg. 1. p. 213. saith, That he cannot but believe that Jus est ortum ex natura, because of these Principles. 1. Quasi muneribus Deorum nos esse instructos & ornatos. 2. Unam esse hominum inter ipsos vivendi parem communemque rationem. 3. Omnes inter se naturali quâdam indulgentiâ & benevolentiâ, tum etiam societate juris contineri.