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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.
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.
8. It is a denial or contempt of his Holiness and Purity, which is contrary to sin as health to sickness: as if by our deeds we would persuade the world, that God is as Satan, a lover of sin, and an enemy to Himself and Holiness.
8. It is a denial or contempt of his Holiness and Purity, which is contrary to sin as health to sickness: as if by our deeds we would perswade the world, that God is as Satan, a lover of sin, and an enemy to Himself and Holiness.
9. It is a denial or contempt of God's propriety, as if we were not his own, and he had not power to dispose of us as be list: or it is a robbing him of the use and service of that which is absolutely his own.