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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
Part 1 › Chapter 14: That there is a Life of Retribution after this.
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.
CHAP. XIV. That there is a Life of Retribution after this.
TO know whether there be a Life after this,1 for men to receive Rewards or Punishments in, is a matter of greatest importance to Mankind, to be fully resolved in: upon which depend our Comforts, and our Religion, and without which we know not what to expect, to hope for, or to fear; nor what to intend and seek after through our lives, nor how to order our hearts or actions.
TO know whether there be a Life after this,1 for men to receive Rewards or Punishments in, is a matter of greatest importance to Mankinde, to be fully resolved in: upon which depend our Comforts, and our Religion, and without which we know not what to expect, to hope for, or to fear; nor what to intend and seek after through our lives, nor how to order our hearts or actions.
- 1Senec. Consol. ad Marciam: Cum tempus advenerit quo se mundus renovaturus, — omni flagrant materia uno igne, quicquid nunc ex disposito lucet, ardebit— Nos quoque faelices animae, & aeterna sortitae, cum Deo visum erit, iterum ista moliri — Foelicem filium tuum Marcia, qui ista (mortuus) jam novit.—Senec. Consol. ad Marciam: Cum tempus advenerit quo se mundus renovaturus, — omni flagrante materia uno igne, quicquid nunc ex disposito lucet, ardebit— Nos quoque faelices animae, & aeterna sortitae, cum Deo visum erit, iterum ista moliri — Foelicem filium tuum Marcia, qui ista (mortuus) jam novit.—