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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.
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.
§. 28. Nature telleth us, that we should deal justly with all, 1giving to every one his due, and doing to them as we would be done by.
- 1When an Adulterer asked Thales whether he should make a vow? he answered him, Adultery is as bad as perjury: intimating, that he that made no conscience of adultery, would make none of perjury. Laert. Cyrus is praised by Plutarch, de curiosit. that would not see Panthaea: and they are by him reproved that cast a wanton eye at women in coaches as they pass by, and look out at windows to have a full view of them, and yet think that they commit no fault: suffering a curious eye and a wandering mind to slide and run every way.