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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.
This therefore I shall inquire into by the help of Reason and Natural evidence, as one that would not be deceived nor deceive, in so great a matter. And I shall pass by those arguments which are commonly fetched from the Souls immateriality, and independence upon matter, and other such like, which are commonly to be found in Physics and Metaphysics, as being not such as my present method leadeth me to; and shall make use of such as are the necessary consectaries of the certain Truths already proved.
This therefore I shall inquire into by the help of Reason and Natural evidence, as one that would not be deceived nor deceive, in so great a matter. And I shall pass by those arguments which are commonly fetcht from the Souls immateriality, and independence upon matter, and other such like, which are commonly to be found in Physicks and Metaphysicks, as being not such as my present method leadeth me to; and shall make use of such as are the necessary consectaries of the certain Truths already proved.
1Object. But whatever Rationalities may be drawn from the Divine Attributes, to prove a future state, yet it depending wholly on the Divine Will, and the Divine Will being absolutely free, we can have no rational inducements to bring us to any sufficient knowledge of it, but by a clear Revelation of the Divine Will.
- 1D• s• •ae, duplicesque cursus animotum è corpore exeuntium: Nam qui se vitiis humanis contaminarunt; & libidinibus see tradiderunt, i•s devium quoddam iter est, seclusum à consil o Deorum. Qui autem se integros castos•, servarunt, quibusque suit m•n•a•a cum corporibus contagio suntque in corporibus humanis vitam imitati Deorum, iis ad illo à quibus sunt profecti, facilè patet reditus. Socrates, in Cicerone Tuscul. 1.