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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.
§. 42. And it teacheth us patiently to bear our crosses, and improve our trials to our benefit, and see that they breed not any sinful distempers in our Minds or Lives.
1§. 43. And Nature telleth us, that this obedient pleasing of our Maker, and holy, righteous, charitable and sober living, should be our greatest pleasure and delight: and that we should thus spend our lives even to the last; waiting patiently in peaceful joyful hopes for the blessed end, which our righteous Governor hath allotted for our reward.
1§. 43. And Nature telleth us, that this obedient pleasing of our Maker, and holy, righteous, charitable and sober living, should be our greatest pleasure and delight: and that we should thus spend our lives even to the last; waiting patiently in peaceful joyful hopes for the blessed end, which our righteous Governour hath allotted for our reward.
- 1Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est, vivere bis, vitâ posse prior frui. Martial.Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus; hoc est, vivere bis, vitâ posse priore frui. Martial.
1All this is evidently legible in nature, to any man that hath not lost his reason, or refuseth not considerately to use it. And he that will read but Antonine, Epictetus and Plutarch, (who are full of such precepts, that I refer you to the whole Books instead of particular citations) may see, that he who will deny a life of Piety, Justice and Temperance, to be the duty and rectitude of Man, must renounce his reason and natural light, as well as supernatural revelation.