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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.
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.
17. It is a preferring our naughtiness before His Goodness; as if we could do better in regulating our selves than God, and could make a better choice for our selves than his Laws have made. And as if our wills were fitter than God's to be the Rule of good and evil.
- 1Piso in Cic. de fin. l. 5. p. 203. saith of the Epicureans, Quin etiam ipsi voluptuarii diverticula quaerant, & virtutes habeant in ore totos dies, &c. which showeth, that virtue was commended even by the voluptuous.Piso in Cic. de fin. l. 5. p. 203. saith of the Epicureans, Quin etiam ipsi voluptuarii diverticula quaerant, & virtutes habeant in ore totos dies, &c. which sheweth, that virtue was commended even by the voluptuous.