A27004:923
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.
§. 20. And he may justly withal deny him those corporal mercies, (meat, drink, honour, pleasure, health, ease, &c.) which he over-valued and abused, and preferred before God and greater blessings.
All this I think no man doth deny that acknowledgeth a God.
§. 21. He that is continued in his natural being, and is deprived of God's favour, and of his future happiness for ever, and understandeth what it is that he hath lost, and is also deprived of all those natural benefits which he desired, must needs be under continual pain of sense as well as of loss: for all this want must needs be felt.
§. 22. He that in all this misery of loss and sense, doth remember how it was that he came to it, and how base a thing he preferred before his God, and his felicity, and for how vile a price he sold his hopes of the life to come, and how odiously he abused God by sin, (as it is before described) cannot choose but have a continual torment of conscience, and heart-gnawing repentance in himself.*