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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.
Of which my senses and experience will not suffer me to doubt.
§. 5. This mind is fitted to the use of KNOWING, and is ⟨p. 3⟩desirous of it, delighted in it, and the more it knoweth, 1the more it is able and disposed to know.
- 1Non ii sumus quibus nihil verum esse videatur, sed ii qui omnibus veris falsa quaedam adjuncta esse dicamus, tanta similitudine, ut, &c. Cicer. de Nat. Deor. 1. p. 7. Lege Pisonis dicta de mente & corpore, in Cicer. de finib. l. 5. p. 189.
All this our actions and experience testify. Knowing is to the mind as seeing is to the eye. One act of knowledge promoteth and facilitateth another.
All this our actions and experience testifie. Knowing is to the mind as seeing is to the eye. One act of knowledge promoteth and facilitateth another.