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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.
§. 11. Usually, 1the more Riches and Fullness of all Provisions for the flesh men possess, the more sensual and vicious they are.
§. 11. Ʋsually, 1the more Riches and Fullness of all Provisions for the flesh men possess, the more sensual and vicious they are.
- 1Imperitia in omnibus majori ex parte dominatur, & multitudo verborum. Cleobulus in Laert. Offendet te superbus contemptu, dives contumeliâ, petulans injuriâ, lividus malignitate, pugnax contention, ventosus & mendax vanitate? Non feres à suspicioso timeri, à pertinace vinci, à delicato fastidiri. Senec. de Ira. l. 3. c. 8. Praestat cum paucis bonis adversus malos omnes, quàm cum multis malis adversus paucos pugnare. Antisthenes in Laert. l. 6. c. 1.Imperitia in omnibus majori ex parte dominatur, & multitudo verborum. Cleobulus in Laert. Offendet te superbus contemptu, dives contumeliâ, petulans injuriâ, lividus malignitate, pugnax contentione, ventosus & mendax vanitate? Non feres à suspicioso timeri, à pertinace vinci, à delicato fastidiri. Senec. de Ira. l. 3. c. 8. Praestat cum paucis bonis adversus malos omnes, quàm cum multis malis adversus paucos pugnare. Antisthenes in Laert. l. 6. c. 1.
It is not always so; but that its usually so, we need no proof but the knowledge of the World: nor need we take it from Christ only as a point of Faith, That its hard for a Rich man to enter into Heaven: And Reason telleth us, that when the love of the World above God is the mortal sin, those are most in danger of it, to whom the World appeareth most lovely: And they that have most temptations are in the greatest danger to miscarry.
It is not alwayes so; but that its usually so, we need no proof but the knowledge of the World: nor need we take it from Christ only as a point of Faith, That its hard for a Rich man to enter into Heaven: And Reason telleth us, that when the love of the World above God is the mortal sin, those are most in danger of it, to whom the World appeareth most lovely: And they that have most temptations are in the greatest danger to miscarry.