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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
Part 1 › Chapter 1: Of the Nearest Truths, viz. of Humane Nature.
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.
This maketh it self as well known to me, as my natural appetite. For my apprehensions do but subserve it, and my life is moved or ruled by it.
§. 10. It is also averse to apprehended evil as such, as contrary to the foresaid good.
Though real evil may possibly be chosen, when it is a seeming good, & also that which appeareth proximately evil, for a higher good to which it seemeth a means, yet ultimately and for it self, no rational will desireth or chooseth Evil.
§. 11. While sensitive pleasure is apprehended as good by the senses, Reason may discern a further good, which may cross at least the present sense.
To take bitter Physic, to corrode or cut off ulcerated parts, to use hard diet and Exercise, &c. may be ungrateful in themselves to sense, and yet commended by Reason, and commanded by the will (I yet forbear all higher instances.)