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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.
§. 13. Seeing Societies as such are totally dependent upon God, and mens gifts are communicative, and Solemnities are operative: Nature teacheth us, that God ought to be solemnly acknowledged, 1worshipped, and honoured, both in Families, and in more solemn appointed assemblies.
- 1Pietas est scientia colendi numinis: inquit Aemilius in Plutarch.
It greatly affecteth our own hearts to praise God in great and solemn Assemblies: Many Hearts are like many pieces ⟨p. 75⟩of Wood or Coals, which flame up greatly when set together,1 which none of them alone would do. And it is a fuller signification of Honour to God, when his Creatures do purposely assemble for his solemn and most reverent Praise and Worship. And therefore Nature showing us the reasons of it, doth make it to be our duty.
It greatly affecteth our own hearts to praise God in great and solemn Assemblies: Many Hearts are like many pieces ⟨p. 75⟩of Wood or Coals, which flame up greatly when set together,1 which none of them alone would do. And it is a fuller signification of Honour to God, when his Creatures do purposely assemble for his solemn and most reverent Praise and Worship. And therefore Nature shewing us the reasons of it, doth make it to be our duty.
- 1Nulla Pietas est erga Deos, nifi honesta de numine Deorum ac Meant opinio sit. Cicer. pro Planc.