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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.
And God having made such a self-determining creature,1 took delight to govern him according to his nature, by the sapiential moral means of Laws; of what he doth more to cause Good than Evil, and other such incident questions, I must now put them off to a fitter place.
- 1Casta placent superis; pura cum mente venite Et manibus puris summit fontis aquam. Tibul. Pone Deos, & quae tangendo sacra profanas; Non bene coelestes impia dextra colit. Ovid.Casta placent superis; pura cum mente venite Et manibus puris sumite fontis aquam. Tibul. Pone Deos, & quae tangendo sacra profanas; Non bene coelestes impia dextra colit. Ovid.
§. 2. God planted in man's mind a natural inclination to Truth and Goodness, and to his own felicity, and an averseness to falsehood, and to evil, and to his own misery and hurt; that these lying deeper than his liberty of choice, might be a pondus to his motions, and help him the more easily and steadfastly to obey, and to adhere to and prosecute his proposed happiness and end.
§. 2. God planted in man's mind a natural inclination to Truth and Goodness, and to his own felicity, and an averseness to falshood, and to evil, and to his own misery and hurt; that these lying deeper than his liberty of choice, might be a pondus to his motions, and help him the more easily and stedfastly to obey, and to adhere to and prosecute his proposed happiness and end.
§. 3. Accordingly God formed his holy Law, with a perfect fitness to these faculties and inclinations, furnishing it wholly with truth and goodness, and fitting all things in it to the benefit of man: (as is proved before.)