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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.
THE CONTENTS.
PART I. Of Natural Religion or GODLINESS. CHAP I. OF the nearest Truths, and 1. Of Humane Nature, or the Knowledge of our selves: (Where note, that the Question about the Souls Immaterial Substance, is reserved to the Appendix or Conclusion), Page 1 CHAP. II. Of Man as Related to the things below him, 4 CHAP. III. Of Men as mutually Related to each other, 6 CHAP. IV. Of MAN and other things as produced by the FIRST CAUSE, 9 CHAP. V. What this CAUSE is in it self: That it is GOD, 16 CHAP VI. Of GOD as RELATED to his Creatures, especially to Man: and I. as his OWNER, 32 ⟨image 16⟩CHAP. VII. Of Mans Relation to God his OWNER, 36 CHAP. VIII. II. Of GOD's Relation to Man as his RULER, where it is proved, that God ruleth Man morally by Laws and Judgement, 38 CHAP. IX. Of Mans SUBJECTION to God, or Relation to him as our RULER, 65 CHAP. X. Of GOD's particular LAWS as known in NATURE: What the Law of Nature is, 69 CHAP. XI. III. Of GOD's Relation to Man as his BENEFACTOR and his END: Or as his CHIEF GOOD: Proved that God is Mans END, 80 CHAP. XII. Of MAN's Relation to God as he is our FATHER, BENEFACTOR, and END or CHIEF GOOD: and the Duties of that Relation, 101 CHAP. XIII. Experiments of the Difficulty of all this Duty-before-proved from Nature: And what it must cost him who will live such a Holy Life, 114 CHAP. XIV. That there is a Life of Retribution after this, proved, 119 CHAP. XV. Of the Intrinsical Evils of SIN: and of the PERPETƲ AL PUNISHMENT due to the Sinner by the undoubted Law of Nature, 156 CHAP. XVI. Of the present sinful and miserable state of the World, 176 CHAP. XVII. What Natural Light declareth of the Mercy of God to Sinners, and of the Hopes and Means of Mans Recovery, 182
PART I. Of Natural Religion or GODLINESS. CHAP I. OF the neerest Truths, and 1. Of Humane Nature, or the Knowledge of our selves: (Where note, that the Question about the Souls Immaterial Substance, is reserved to the Appendix or Conclusion), Page 1 CHAP. II. Of Man as Related to the things below him, 4 CHAP. III. Of Men as mutually Related to each other, 6 CHAP. IV. Of MAN and other things as produced by the FIRST CAƲSE, 9 CHAP. V. What this CAƲSE is in it self: That it is GOD, 16 CHAP VI. Of GOD as RELATED to his Creatures, especially to Man: and I. as his OWNER, 32