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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.
there may be more of the wonderful skill, and power, and goodness of God, laid out on one of those Stars, that seems smallest to our sight, than millions of humane intellects, if united, were able to comprehend. And who knoweth the number any more than the magnitude and excellency of those Stars. What man ⟨p. 98⟩can once look up towards the Firmament in a Star light night,1 or once read a Treatise of Astronomy, and then compare it with his Geography, and compare those far more excellent Orbs with this narrower and darker world we live in, and not be wrapped up into the astonishing admiration of the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of the Creator? When the anatomizing of the body of one man or beast might wrap up any considerate man into Galen's admiration and praises of the Maker! and how many myriads of such bodies hath God created? and how much more excellent are the forms or souls than any of those bodies? And how little know we how incomparably more excellent the nature of Angels may be than ours? and what glorious Beings may inhabit the more glorious Orbs? and yet can you think meanly of the Creator's Goodness?
there may be more of the wonderful skill, and power, and goodness of God, laid out on one of those Stars, that seems smallest to our sight, than millions of humane intellects, if united, were able to comprehend. And who knoweth the number any more than the magnitude and excellency of those Stars. What man ⟨p. 98⟩can once look up towards the Firmament in a Star light night,1 or once read a Treatise of Astronomy, and then compare it with his Geography, and compare those far more excellent Orbs with this narrower and darker world we live in, and not be wrapt up into the astonishing admiration of the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of the Creator? When the anatomizing of the body of one man or beast might wrap up any considerate man into Galen's admiration and praises of the Maker! and how many myriades of such bodies hath God created? and how much more excellent are the forms or souls than any of those bodies? And how little know we how incomparably more excellent the nature of Angels may be than ours? and what glorious Beings may inhabit the more glorious Orbs? and yet can you think meanly of the Creator's Goodness?