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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

Name: The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667

[37], 604 p. : port. · 240k words · Wing B1367 · ESTC R5892

Title page: Princeton Theological Seminary Library copy, digitized by the Internet Archive (opens the Internet Archive in a new tab)

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.

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§. 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.

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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.

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 sheweth more of God than other inferiour 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.

1Vide Plutarchi Roman. quaest. 65.
2Temperantia libidinum inimica est. Cic.

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

Place

London

Printer

R. White

Bookseller

Fran. Titon

Year

1667

Size

[37], 604 p. : port.

Words

239,994

Catalogue

Wing B1367 · ESTC R5892

Text

EEBO-TCP A27004

Passages

2,380

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

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