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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.
An undervaluing of Benefits, and demurring, or rejecting them, is a great abuse and injury to a Benefactor. Thus doth the ungodly World, against all the Grace and greatest mercies of God. They know not the worth of them, and therefore despise them, and will not be entreated to accept them: ⟨p. 104⟩but take them for intolerable injuries or troubles, as a sick Stomach doth its Physic and Food,1 because they are against their fleshly Appetites. An open heart to receive Gods mercies with high esteem, beseemeth such Beneficiaries as we.
An undervaluing of Benefits, and demurring, or rejecting them, is a great abuse and injury to a Benefactor. Thus doth the ungodly World, against all the Grace and greatest mercies of God. They know not the worth of them, and therefore despise them, and will not be intreated to accept them: ⟨p. 104⟩but take them for intollerable injuries or troubles, as a sick Stomack doth its Physick and Food,1 because they are against their fleshly Appetites. An open heart to receive Gods mercies with high esteem, beseemeth such Beneficiaries as we.
- 1Credamus itaque nihil esse grato animo honestius. Omnes hoc urbes, omnes etiam ex barbaris regionibus gentes conclamabunt; In tanta judiciorum diversitate, referendam benè merentibus gratiam, omnes uno ore affirmabunt; in hoc discors turba consentiens. Senec. ib.
§. 8. 2. Thankfulness is that Operation of Love, which the light of Nature hath convinced all the World, to be a duty: and scarce a man is to be found so brutish as to deny it: And our Love to God should be more thankful than to all the World, because our Receivings from Him are much greater, than from all.