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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.
§. 10. X. If no man living be certain that there is no future life of Retribution, 1then it is certain that there is such a life: But no man living is certain that there is no such life: Ergo, its certain that there is.
- 1Ea paranda viatico, quae cum naufragio simul enatarent: ait Antisthenes in Laert. l. 6. c. 1. Id ib. dixit, Eos qui cuperent immortales esse, oportere pie vivere & justé.
The Major is proved thus: If all men be in Reason obliged to seek the happiness and escape the punishments of another life, before all the treasures and pleasures of this World, then it is certain that such a Life of happiness and punishments there is: But if no man be certain, that there is no such life, the bare probability or possibility that there is such, doth in reason ⟨p. 138⟩oblige all men to seek it, above all the World: Ergo, it is certain that such a life there is.
1My argument is from our Obligation to seek it before all, to the certain being of it. 1. That no man is certain that there is no life to come, I need not prove, as long as no man ever proved such an opinion, and the boldest Atheists or Infidels say no more, than that they think there is no other life, but all confess that they have no assurance of it.
- 1Dii boni! quid est in hominis vita diu? Mihi ne diuturnum quidem quicquam videtur, in quo est aliquid extremum. Cum enim id advenit, tum illud praeteriit, effluxit: Tantum remanet quod virtute & rectè factis sit consecutus. Horae quidem cedunt, & dies, & menses, & anni, nec praeteritum tempus unquam revertitur: nec quid sequatur sciri potest. Cicer. Cat. Maj.