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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.
§. 12. It followeth not therefore that Punishment or Rewards must cease, if the ends be past in natural existence; because Moral means may in time be after their end, to which they were ⟨p. 165⟩appointed to operate in esse cognito;1 and that penalty which is perpetuated may be a means to the ends already attained: that is, the threatenings, and the expectation of them; and then the honour of the Ruler's veracity and justice bindeth him to the execution.
§. 12. It followeth not therefore that Punishment or Rewards must cease, if the ends be past in natural existence; because Moral means may in time be after their end, to which they were ⟨p. 165⟩appointed to operate in esse cognito;1 and that penalty which is perpetuated may be a means to the ends already attained: that is, the threatnings, and the expectation of them; and then the honour of the Ruler's veracity and justice bindeth him to the execution.
- 1In judicando vel corrigendo haec est lexut aut eum quempunit emendet, aut poena ejus caeteros meliores reddat; aut sublatis malis securiores caeteri vivant. Sen. de Clem.
§. 13. What ever reward or punishment is annexed to sin by the Law, is offered with the duty and sin to the subjects choosing or refusing; and no man is in danger of any punishment but he that chooseth it, in its self or in its annexed cause. And he that will have it, or will have that which he is told by God is annexed to it, (especially if it be deliberately and obstinately to the last) hath none to blame of cruelty towards him but himself, nor nothing to complain of but his wilful choice.