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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 1: Of the Nearest Truths, viz. of Humane Nature.
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.
1§. 2. By my actions I know that I am; and that I am a sentient, intelligent, thinking, willing, and operative being; or a wight that hath these powers.
- 1Ut Deum noris, & si ignores & locum & faciem; sic animum tibi tuum notum esse oportet, etiamsi ignores & locum & formam. Cicer. 1. Tuscul.
For ab operari ad posse & esse, the consequence is undoubted. Nothing is no agent; and none doth that which he cannot do.
§. 3. This mind, or foresaid power, is found in, or conjunct with an organized body.
He that doubteth not of his sense and intellection, need not doubt of his body, which is the object of both.