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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.
§. 32. Therefore God daily reneweth his mercies to us, that the variety and freshness of them producing renewed delight, may renew our lively feelings of his love and goodness, and so may carry us on in love, without cessations and declinings.
Our natures are so apt to lose the sense of a Good that is grown ordinary and common, that God by our renewed necessities, and the renewed supplies, and variety of mercies, doth cure this defect.
§. 33. Those therefore that turn God's mercies to the gratifying of their sensitive appetites and lusts, and forget him, and offend him the more, and love him the less, do forfeit his mercies by their inhumane and irrational ingratitude and abuse.
Which is the sin of all proud, covetous, voluptuous persons; ⟨p. 109⟩the ambitious, fornicators, gluttons, drunkards, and lovers of sports, recreations, idleness, or any pleasure, as it turneth them from God.