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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.
131. It is the deformity, monstrosity, disorder, sickness and abuse of a Noble Creature, whom God made, in our measure, like himself, and so a contemptuous defacing of his Image.
- 1Minus malum est seritas & immanitas quam vitium, etsi terribilior. Aristot. 7. Eth. c. 6.
32. It is a robbing God of that Glory of his Holiness, which should shine forth in our hearts and lives, and of that complacency which he would take in our Love, Obedience, Perfection and Felicity.
33. It is the perverting and Moral destruction, not only of our own faculties, (which were made for God); but of all the World which is within our reach: Turning all that against ⟨p. 161⟩God and our happiness, which was given us for them. Yea, it is worse than casting them all away, while we use them contrary to their natures, against their Owner and their end.