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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.
Either it is fleshly, worldly pleasure, or it is the pleasing and enjoying of God in Holiness and Love, which is Mans ultimate end. If it be the former, then certainly the sensual and wicked are in a better condition than the obedient: For they have much more of that kind of delight; while ⟨p. 125⟩the best are oft tormented and persecuted by their cruelty.1 But if it be the latter, then it is sure to be enjoyed hereafter, seeing we have here so small a measure, and also find that all the Virtue and Holiness of this life, consisteth much more in desire, and seeking, than in delightful enjoying: And our Delights are for the most part, the effects of Hope, of what we shall possess hereafter, more than of the sense of our present happiness.
Either it is fleshly, worldly pleasure, or it is the pleasing and enjoying of God in Holiness and Love, which is Mans ultimate end. If it be the former, then certainly the sensual and wicked are in a better condition than the obedient: For they have much more of that kinde of delight; while ⟨p. 125⟩the best are oft tormented and persecuted by their cruelty.1 But if it be the latter, then it is sure to be enjoyed hereafter, seeing we have here so small a measure, and also finde that all the Virtue and Holiness of this life, consisteth much more in desire, and seeking, than in delightfull enjoying: And our Delights are for the most part, the effects of Hope, of what we shall possess hereafter, more than of the sense of our present happiness.
- 1Animus est ingeneratus à Deo, ex quo verè vel agnatio nobis cum coelestibus vel genus vel stirps appellari potest. Cicero 1. de Legib.