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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.
Answ. Is the Law of Nature no clear Revelation of Gods will? or is it a Law without any Rewards or Penalties? It depended on Gods will, whether man should be his Subject or no, obliged to obey him! But doth it follow therefore that it cannot be proved? By making him a Rational free Agent, and sociable, placed among occasions of good and evil, God did reveal that it was his will that Man should be his Subject, and obey him! One action of God doth oft reveal his will concerning another. Those Attributes of God which signify his Relation to us, do reveal much of his will, concerning what he will do with us in those Relations. And though his will be free, his perfections consist not with falsehood and mutability. If in freedom you include [indetermination] then when we prove the determination of it ad unum, you will plead no longer that it is free; no more than it is yet free whether he will make the World.
Answ. Is the Law of Nature no clear Revelation of Gods will? or is it a Law without any Rewards or Penalties? It depended on Gods will, whether man should be his Subject or no, obliged to obey him! But doth it follow therefore that it cannot be proved? By making him a Rational free Agent, and sociable, placed among occasions of good and evil, God did reveal that it was his will that Man should be his Subject, and obey him! One action of God doth oft reveal his will concerning another. Those Attributes of God which signifie his Relation to us, do reveal much of his will, concerning what he will do with us in those Relations. And though his will be free, his perfections consist not with falshood and mutability. If in freedom you include [indetermination] then when we prove the determination of it ad unum, you will plead no longer that it is free; no more than it is yet free whether he will make the World.
1§. 1. I. He that is the most Righteous Governor of the World, making a just difference by Rewards and Punishments, between the obedient and the wicked, which yet he maketh not in this life, will certainly make it after this life: But God is the most Righteous Governor of the World, making a just difference by Rewards and Punishments, between the obedient and the wicked, which yet he maketh not in this life: Therefore he will make it after this life.