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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.
For in vain is the labour of the Teachers, if the Learners will not do their part: the Receiver hath the chief benefit, and therefore the greatest part of the duty, which must do most to the success.
§. 21. Nature telleth men, that they should not live loosely and ungoverned, but in the order of governed Societies, for the better attainment of the ends of their Creation, (as is proved before.)
§. 22. Nature telleth us, that Governors should be the most wise, and pious, and just, and merciful, and diligent, and exemplary, laying out themselves for the public good, and the pleasing of the universal Sovereign.
§. 22. Nature telleth us, that Governours should be the most wise, and pious, and just, and merciful, and diligent, and exemplary, laying out themselves for the publick good, and the pleasing of the universal Sovereign.
§. 23. It teacheth us also, that Subjects must be faithful to their Governors, 1