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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
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.
§. 1. Man hath his Being, and all the good which he possesseth, from God, as the sole first Efficient by Creation.
§. 2. Therefore God alone is the Universal Grand BENEFACTOR of the world, besides whom they have no other, but merely subordinate to him.
§. 2. Therefore God alone is the Ʋniversal Grand BENEFACTOR of the world, besides whom they have no other, but meerly subordinate to him.
No creature can give us any thing which is originally its own, having nothing but what it hath received from God: Therefore it is no more to us, but either a gift of God, or a Messenger to bring us his gift; they have nothing themselves but what they have received: nor have we any sort of Good, either Natural, Moral, of Mind, or Body, or Fortune, or Friends, but what is totally from the Bounty of our Creator, and as totally from him, as if no creature had ever been his instrument.1
- 1Quis dubitare potest mi Lucili, quin Deorum immortalium munas sit quod vivimus. Senec. Prope Deus est, tecum est, intus est: Ita dico Lucili, sacer intra nos spiritus sedet, bonorum malorumque nostrorum observator & custos. Hic prout à nobis tractatur, ita & nos tractat ipse: Bonus verò vir sine Deo nemo est. An potest aliquis supra formam, nisi ab illo, adjatus exurgere. Ille dat consilia, magnifica & erecta in unoquoque bono viro. Senec.