A27004:685
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.
§. 6. Education, custom and ill example confirm these vicious habits with the most, and much increase them.
§. 6. Education, custom and ill example confirm these vicious habits with the most, and much encrease them.
§. 7. The best have some of this inordinate sensuality and weakness of Reason, and are imperfect in virtue, and are tempted by the world as well as others.
§. 8. Therefore no man can live to God according to his certain duty, who will not deny the desires of his flesh, and bring it into subjection, and live in vigilancy and daily conflict against its lusts.
Obj. But the appetite of meat, and drink, and sleep, and ease, and venery, and sport, and pleasure, and gain, and honour, is natural to us: and that which is natural is no vice, nor to be denied or destroyed.