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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.
§. 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.)
§. 4. This Law had a sufficient promulgation, being legible on the face of the whole Creation, (within our view) and specially on the nature of man himself, from whence his duty did result.
§. 5. And God was pleased to make as legible the most rational powerful motives to love and obedience, that can be imagined by man, that no tempter might possibly bid the ten thousandth part so much for our love and obedience as he had bid, and assured us of himself.
§. 6. From all this it is most evident, that God made us not sinners, though he made us men; but that man, 1being defectible, abused his liberty, and turned from God, and brought corruption and misery upon himself.
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