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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.
And he that believeth that God himself doth govern the world by a cheat, even by the hopes and fears of fictions, will sure think it best to imitate his God, and to govern, and trade, and live accordingly.
This argument was à necessitate ad ordinem, the next shall be only from God's actual government.
§. 6. VI. If God do de facto govern the world by the hopes and fears of Good and Evil in another Life, then the object of ⟨p. 134⟩those hopes and fears is certain: 1But God doth de facto so govern: Ergo.
- 1Laertius saith of Bion Borist. That he had learned of impious Theodorus to deny God, in his health; but falling into unhealthfulness he repented of his sin against God. Ac siquidem id dogma tueri perstitisset, merito dicendus esset sensuse ut visum fuislet, etsi male visum esset. At nunc tamen longo morbo tabescens, ac mori pertimescens, qui Deos non esse dixe•at, phanum non viderat, mortalibus qui illudebat veris dumb diis immolarent — Peccavi dixit, delictis parcite— Stultus qui mercede voluerit Deos esse. Quasi tunc Dii essent quum illos Bion demum esse arbitraretur.Laertius saith of Bion Borist. That he had learned of impious Theodorus to deny God, in his health; but falling into unhealthfulness he repented of his sin against God. Ac siquidem id dogma tueri perstitisset, merito dicendus esset sensuse ut visum fuislet, etsi male visum esset. At nunc tamen longo morbo tabescens, ac mori pertimescens, qui Deos non esse dixe•at, phanum non viderat, mortalibus qui illudebat veris dum diis immolarent — Peccavi dixit, delictis parcite— Stultus qui mercede voluerit Deos esse. Quasi tunc Dii essent quum illos Bion demum esse arbitraretur.