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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
Part 1 › Chapter 10: Of GOD's particular Laws as known in Nature.
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.
§. 9. Mans Nature being what it is, 1and Related thus to God, and Gods Nature and Relations being as afore described, Man is naturally obliged to take God to be what he is in all his Attributes forementioned (cap. 5.) and to suit his will, and affections to God accordingly: that is, to take him to be omnipotent, omniscient, and most good, most faithful, and most just, &c. and to believe him, seek him, trust him, love him, fear him, obey him, meditate on him, to honour him, and prefer him before all the World; and this with all our Heart and might, and to take our chiefest pleasure in it.
§. 9. Mans Nature being what it is, 1and Related thus to God, and Gods Nature and Relations being as afore described, Man is naturally obliged to take God to be what he is in all his Attributes forementioned (cap. 5.) and to suit his will, and affections to God accordingly: that is, to take him to be omnipotent, omniscient, and most good, most faithfull, and most just, &c. and to believe him, seek him, trust him, love him, fear him, obey him, meditate on him, to honour him, and preferre him before all the World; and this with all our Heart and might, and to take our chiefest pleasure in it.
- 1Laertius saith of the Magi, that they do Deorum cultui vacare; signa statuasque reprehendere; & eorum imprimis qui Mares esse Deos & foeminas, dicunt, errors improbare. Signa & statuas ex disciplinae instituto è medio tulisse. Qui & revicturos homines, immortalesque futuros, dicunt, & universa illorum precationibus consistere. Plerique & Judaeos ab his duxisse originem tradunt. Laert. pag. 4, 5, 6.Laertius saith of the Magi, that they do Deorum cultui vacare; signa statuasque reprehendere; & eorum imprimis qui Mares esse Deos & foeminas, dicunt, errores improbare. Signa & statuas ex disciplinae instituto è medio tulisse. Qui & revicturos homines, immortalesque futuros, dicunt, & universa illorum precationibus consistere. Plerique & Judaeos ab his duxisse originem tradunt. Laert. pag. 4, 5, 6.