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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.
1. And for the first, the Consciences of all Good men are my witnesses; whose desires to know God better,1 to love him and please him more, and to enjoy his Love, is as the very pulse and breath of their souls. For this they groan, and pray, and seek; for this they labour, wait and suffer: If you could help them to more of the Knowledge and Love of God, you would satisfy them more than to give them all the wealth and honours of the World. Their Religious lives, their labours, prayers, contemplations, and sufferings, prove all this, and show for what they long and live.
1. And for the first, the Consciences of all Good men are my witnesses; whose desires to know God better,1 to love him and please him more, and to enjoy his Love, is as the very pulse and breath of their souls. For this they groan, and pray, and seek; for this they labour, wait and suffer: If you could help them to more of the Knowledge and Love of God, you would satisfie them more than to give them all the wealth and honours of the World. Their Religious lives, their labours, prayers, contemplations, and sufferings, prove all this, and shew for what they long and live.
- 1For as the Sun is not seen without the Sun, nor the Air heard without the Air, but the Eye that is full of the light seeth the light, and the Ear full of air heareth the resounding air; so God is not known without God; but a mind full of God only, is lifted up to God, so far as illustrated with the light of God he knoweth God, and inflamed with the heat of God he thirsteth after him. Ficin. c. 2. p. 15.For as the Sun is not seen without the Sun, nor the Aire heard without the Air, but the Eye that is full of the light seeth the light, and the Ear full of air heareth the resounding air; so God is not known without God; but a mind full of God only, is lifted up to God, so far as illustrated with the light of God he knoweth God, and inflamed with the heat of God he thirsteth after him. Ficin. c. 2. p. 15.