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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.
§. 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.)
To take bitter Physick, to corrode or cut off ulcerated parts, to use hard dyet and Exercise, &c. may be ungratefull in themselves to sense, and yet commended by Reason, and commanded by the will (I yet forbear all higher instances.)
1§. 12. My sense and bodily faculties, are naturally to be subjected to the guidance of my Reason, and the command of my Will, as the superior faculties.
1§. 12. My sense and bodily faculties, are naturally to be subjected to the guidance of my Reason, and the command of my Will, as the superiour faculties.
- 1Animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur: Alterum nobis cum Diis, alterum cum belluis commune est. Salust. Cat.