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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.
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.
34.1 It is thus a preach in the Moral order and harmony of the world, and as much as in us lieth, the destroying of the world: As the dislocation or rejection of some parts of a Clock or Watch, is a disordering of the whole; and as a wound to the hand or foot is a wrong to the body. And it is a wound to every Society where it is committed; and an injury to every individual, who is tempted or afflicted by it.
34.1 It is thus a preach in the Moral order and harmony of the world, and as much as in us lyeth, the destroying of the world: As the dislocation or rejection of some parts of a Clock or Watch, is a disordering of the whole; and as a wound to the hand or foot is a wrong to the body. And it is a wound to every Society where it is committed; and an injury to every individual, who is tempted or afflicted by it.