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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.
§. 2. We find that the senses of men are grown masterly and inordinate, and are too eagerly set upon their objects, and hold down the mind from rising higher, and cause it to adhere to things terrene.
So that man's life now is like that of the brutes: it is things of the same nature that he valueth and adhereth to, and most men live to no higher ends but to enjoy their sensual pleasure while they may.
So that man's life now is like that of the bruits: it is things of the same nature that he valueth and adhereth to, and most men live to no higher ends but to enjoy their sensual pleasure while they may.
§. 3. We find that Reason in most men is so debilitated, that it cannot potently reduce it self into action, nor see that practically which speculatively it confesseth, nor clearly and powerfully observe those Perfections of God in his works, nor those Duties of man, which we are convinced to be true: but by inconsiderateness and dull apprehensions is almost as no reason to them, and falleth down before their sensuality.