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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.
CHAP. IX. II. Of Man's Subjection to God, or Relation to him as our Governor.
CHAP. IX. II. Of Man's Subjection to God, or Relation to him as our Governour.
§. 1. Man being made thus a Rational free Agent, 1and sociable to be governed, and God being his Rightful Governor, is immediately related to God as his Subject, as to Right and Obligation.
§. 1. MAn being made thus a Rational free Agent, 1and sociable to be governed, and God being his Rightful Governour, is immediately related to God as his Subject, as to Right and Obligation.
- 1Seneca Epist. ad Luc. 83. p. (mihi) 711. saith, Sic certe vivendum est, tanquam in conspectu vivamus. Sic cogitandum, tanquam aliquis in pectus inspicere posset & potest: Quid enim prodest ab homine aliquid esse secretum. Nihil Deo clausum interest animis nostris, & cogitationibus mediis intervenit. Diogenes (in Laert.) said to an immodest woman, Non vereris mulier, ne forte stante post tergum Deo (cuncta enim plena ipso sunt) inhoneste te habeas? Primus est Deorum cultus, Deos credere; deinde reader illis Majestatem suam: reader Bonitatem sine qua nulla Majestas est: scire illo esse qui praesider Mundo, qui universe ut sua, temperanin qui humani genet. tutelam gerunt. Idem. epist. 92.Seneca Epist. ad Luc. 83. p. (mihi) 711. saith, Sic certe vivendum est, tanquam in conspectu vivamus. Sic cogitandum, tanquam aliquis in pectus inspicere posset & potest: Quid enim prodest ab homine aliquid esse secretum. Nihil Deo clausum interest animis nostris, & cogitationibus mediis intervenit. Diogenes (in Laert.) said to an immodest woman, Non vereris mulier, ne forte stante post tergum Deo (cuncta enim plena ipso sunt) inhoneste te habeas? Primus est Deorum cultus, Deos credere; deinde reddere illis Majestatem suam: reddere Bonitatem sine qua nulla Majestas est: scire illo esse qui praesider Mundo, qui universe ut sua, temperanin qui humani genet. tutelam gerunt. Idem. epist. 92.