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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.
14. It is a denial or contempt of the wisdom of God, as if he had erred in the making of his Laws, and knew not so well what is just, and meet, and good for us, as we our selves, and were not wise enough to govern a lump of animated clay.
- 1The Athenians punished not only the total violation of a Law, but even of a clause or part of a Law.
5. It is an exalting of our folly into the Throne of the Divine Wisdom; as if we had more wisdom than he that made us, and knew better what is just and meet, and what is fit or good for our selves, and could correct God's Laws, and make our selves a better Rule.
6. It is a denial or contempt of the Goodness of God, as if he had ensnared us by his Law, and envied our happiness, and forbade us that which would do us good, and put us upon that which, will do us hurt, and so would seduce us into calamity, and were an enemy to our welfare.
6. It is a denial or contempt of the Goodness of God, as if he had ensnared us by his Law, and envied our happiness, and forbad us that which would do us good, and put us upon that which, will do us hurt, and so would seduce us into calamity, and were an enemy to our welfare.