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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.
§. 15. 1. Man being but in Via under the efficiency and conduct of Love, to final Love and Goodness hath his End to intend, and his means to use, and therefore Love must needs work by Desire.1
- 1Vos, vos appello, qui Mercurium, qui Platonem, Pythagoramque sectamini: vosque caeteros qui estis unius mentis, & per easdem vias placitorum inceditis unitate. Audetis ridere nos — Quid Plato vester nonne animo surgere suadet e terris, & circa Deum semper (quantum fieri potest) cogitatione ac meant versari? Audetis ridere nos quod animarum nostrarum provideamus saluti? id est ipsi nobis? Quid enim sumus homines, nisi animae corporibus clausae? Vos enim nonne omnes pro illarum geritis incolumitatibus curas▪ Metus ille vos habet ne velut trabalibus clavis affixi, corporibus haereatis? Quid illi sibi velint secretarum artium ritus, quibus affamini nescio quas potestates, ut sint vobis placidae, neque ad fedes remeantibus patrias obstacula impeditionis opponant. Arnob. adv. Gentes, lib. 2. p. 14.Vos, vos appello, qui Mercurium, qui Platonem, Pythagoramque sectamini: vosque caeteros qui estis unius mentis, & per easdem vias placitorum inceditis unitate. Audetis ridere nos — Quid Plato vester nonne animo surgere suadet e terris, & circa Deum semper (quantum fieri potest) cogitatione ac mente versari? Audetis ridere nos quod animarum nostrarum provideamus saluti? id est ipsi nobis? Quid enim sumus homines, nisi animae corporibus clausae? Vos enim nonne omnes pro illarum geritis incolumitatibus curas▪ Metus ille vos habet ne velut trabalibus clavis affixi, corporibus haereatis? Quid illi sibi velint secretarum artium ritus, quibus affamini nescio quas potestates, ut sint vobis placidae, neque ad fedes remeantibus patrias obstacula impeditionis opponant. Arnob. adv. Gentes, lib. 2. p. 14.
§. 16. So far as a man is short of the thing desired, Love will have some sense of want; and so far as we are crossed in our seekings, and frustrate in any of our hopes, it will be sorrowful.