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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§. 11. XI. If the perfection of mans faculties to which Nature formed him, be not attained in this life, then is there another life where it is to be attained. But the Antecedent is true: Ergo, so is the Consequent.
- 1Abeunt omnia unde orta sunt. Cicer. Cato Maj. Boni viri sunt Deorum simulachra. Diogen. in Laert. Surely if the World was made for Man, then Man was made for more than the world. Du-Plessis Verit. Christ. Relig. Praefar.
The reason of the consequence is, because God who maketh nothing in vain, made not man in vain, nor his natural inclination to his own perfection. His will is signified by his works: As a man that makes a knife, or sword, or gun, or ship, doth tell you what he maketh it for, by the usefulness and form of it; so when God made man with faculties fitted to know him, and love him, he showed you that he made him for that use, and that therein he would employ him.
The reason of the consequence is, because God who maketh nothing in vain, made not man in vain, nor his natural inclination to his own perfection. His will is signified by his works: As a man that makes a knife, or sword, or gun, or ship, doth tell you what he maketh it for, by the usefulness and form of it; so when God made man with faculties fitted to know him, and love him, he shewed you that he made him for that use, and that therein he would employ him.
Obj. It would perfect the wit of a Brute if it were raised as high as a Mans; and yet it followeth not, that so it shall be.
Obj. It would perfect the wit of a Bruit if it were raised as high as a Mans; and yet it followeth not, that so it shall be.