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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.
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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.
Though it be possible that some sensual sluggish person, may be so taken up with present earthly things, as to drown these desires, and scarce to think of any first cause, or take any pleasure in the exercise of his higher faculties; yet, as I feel it otherwise in my self, so I find it otherwise in multitudes of others, and in all that have free minds, and in the worst at certain times; so that I perceive it is natural to man, to desire to know even the first Cause, and highest excellency.1
Though it be possible that some sensual sluggish person, may be so taken up with present earthly things, as to drown these desires, and scarce to think of any first cause, or take any pleasure in the exercise of his higher faculties; yet, as I feel it otherwise in my self, so I find it otherwise in multitudes of others, and in all that have free minds, and in the worst at certain times; so that I perceive it is natural to man, to desire to know even the first Cause, and highest excellencie.1
- 1Omnes ad id quod Bonum videtur, omnes suas actiones referunt. Aristot. de Republ. 1. c. 1.