A27004:669
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.
Obj. But we see the Creature, but God we see not, and we find it not natural to us to love that which we do not see.
Answ. Is not Reason a nobler faculty than sight? if it be,1 why should it not more rule you, and dispose of you? Shall no Subjects honour and obey their King but those that see him? You can love your money, and land, and friends when they are out of sight.
Answ. Is not Reason a nobler faculty than sight? if it be,1 why should it not more rule you, and dispose of you? Shall no Subjects honour and obey their King but those that see him? You can love your mony, and land, and friends when they are out of sight.
- 1Unum verò finem Aristotelis declaravit, esse usum virtutis in vita sancta & integrâ. Hesych. Illust. in Aristot.
Obj. But these are things visible in their nature.