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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.
§. 26. Nature also telleth us, 1that thus the Relations of Husband and Wife should be sanctified to the highest ends of life; and also the Relation of Master and Servant: and that our callings and labours in the world should be managed in pure obedience to God, and to our ultimate end.
- 1Nihil interest utrum vir bonus scelestum spoliaverit, an bonum improbus: nec utrum bonus an malus adulteratus sit: sed lex damni solum spectat dissimilitudinem, utiturque pro paribus, si alter violavit, alter violatus est. Aristot. Ethic. 5. c. 4.
§. 27. Nature teacheth all men to love one another, as servants of the same God, and members of the same universal Kingdom, and creatures of the same specific nature.
§. 27. Nature teacheth all men to love one another, as servants of the same God, and members of the same universal Kingdom, and creatures of the same specifick nature.
There is somewhat amiable in every man, for there is something of God in every man, and therefore something that it is our duty to love: And that according to the excellency of man's nature, which showeth more of God than other inferior creatures do;1 and also according to their additional virtues. Loveliness commandeth love, and love maketh lovely. This, with all the rest afore-mentioned,2 are so plain, that to prove them is but to be tedious.