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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.
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.
§. 6. Being and verity are its direct objects.
As light and colours are the objects of our sight. To these it hath power and inclination.
§. 7. When I know the effects, I have an inclination to know the cause; not only the lower, but the very first.
§. 7. When I know the effects, I have an inclination to know the cause; not onely the lower, but the very first.