A27004:670
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.
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.
1Answ. They are so much the more vile, and less amiable. Your own Souls are invisible, will you not therefore love them? You never saw the life or form of any Plant or living Wight; you see the beauty of your Roses, and many other flowers, but you see not the life and form within, which causeth all that beauty and variety; which yet must be more excellent than the effect. Can you doubt whether all things which appear here to your sight, have an invisible Cause and Maker? or can you think him less amiable, because he is invisible, that is, more excellent?
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