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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.
Perhaps you will say, that if this be so, you make the Devil to be stronger than God, and to be the Governor of the World, or to be more in hatred to goodness, than God is in love with it.
Perhaps you will say, that if this be so, you make the Devil to be stronger than God, and to be the Governour of the World, or to be more in hatred to goodness, than God is in love with it.
I answer, No: but it appeareth that his Enmity to it is implacable, and that he militateth against God and mans felicity, and that sin hath so far brought this lower World under Gods displeasure, that he hath in a great measure forsaken it, and left it to the will of Satan: Yet hath he his holy seed and Kingdom here, and the purposes of his Grace shall never be frustrated, nor the Gates of Hell prevail against his Church: And if he may forsake Hell totally as to his felicitating presence, he may also penally forsake Earth as to the greater number, whilst for ought we know, he may have thousands of Orbs of better Inhabitants which have not so forfeited his love, nor are not so forsaken by him.
I answer, No: but it appeareth that his Enmity to it is implacable, and that he militateth against God and mans felicity, and that sin hath so far brought this lower World under Gods displeasure, that he hath in a great measure forsaken it, and left it to the will of Satan: Yet hath he his holy seed and Kingdom here, and the purposes of his Grace shall never be frustrated, nor the Gates of Hell prevail against his Church: And if he may forsake Hell totally as to his felicitating presence, he may also penally forsake Earth as to the greater number, whilest for ought we know, he may have thousands of Orbs of better Inhabitants which have not so forfeited his love, nor are not so forsaken by him.