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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.
27. It is a setting up the sordid Creature for our End, as if it were more attractive and amiable than God, and fitter to content and delight the Soul.
28. It is a contempt of all that glorious Happiness of the Life to come, which God hath warranted the righteous to expect: As if it were not all so good as the defiling transitory pleasures of sin, and would not recompense us for all that we can do or suffer for God.
28. It is a contempt of all that glorious Happiness of the Life to come, which God hath warranted the righteous to expect: As if it were not all so good as the defiling transitory pleasures of sin, and would not recompence us for all that we can do or suffer for God.
29. It is the silencing and laying by our Reason by inconsiderateness, or the perverting and abusing of it by Error, in the greatest matters, for which it was given us; and so it is a voluntary drunkenness or madness, in the things of God and our felicity.