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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
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.
CHAP. XV. Of the intrinsic Evil of Sin, and of the perpetual Punishment due to the Sinner by the undoubted Law of Nature.1
CHAP. XV. Of the intrinsick Evil of Sin, and of the perpetual Punishment due to the Sinner by the undoubted Law of Nature.1
- 1Ad hoc anima conjuncta corpori est, ut fruatur scientiis & virtutibus: si autem cum fervore magno see invenerit, benign recipietur à suo creatore; fin autem secus, relegabitur ad inferna. Plat. in Tim. Animus recte solus liber, nec dominationi cujusquam parent, neque obediens cupiditati. Recte invictus, cujus etiamsi corpus constringatur, animo tamen vincula injici nulla possunt. Cic. 3. de finib. Deus animum ut Dominum & imperantem obedienti praefecit corpori. Cic. de univers.Ad hoc anima conjuncta corpori est, ut fruatur scientiis & virtutibus: si autem cum fervore magno se invenerit, benigne recipietur à suo creatore; fin autem secus, relegabitur ad inferna. Plat. in Tim. Animus recte solus liber, nec dominationi cujusquam parent, neque obediens cupiditati. Recte invictus, cujus etiamsi corpus constringatur, animo tamen vincula injici nulla possunt. Cic. 3. de finib. Deus animum ut Dominum & imperantem obedienti praefecit corpori. Cic. de univers.
§. 1. IT seemed good to the most wise Creator to give Man with Reason a Liberty of Will, by which he is a kind of first cause of its own determination in comparative moral acts; though he hold the power in full dependence upon God, and perform each act as an act in genere by the influx of his Maker, and do all under his perfect government. And these great Principles in his Nature, his Power, his Reason, and his free self-determining Will, are the Image of God, in which as Man he was created, which advanced by the perfections of Fortitude, Wisdom and Moral Goodness, are also in Holiness the Image of God's Perfections.