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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.
§. 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.*
- *Facinorosa conscientia instar ulceris in corpore, poenitentiam relinquit in anima lancinantem jugiter ac pervellentem. Plut. de Tranquil. Maxima est factae injuriae poena fecisse: nec quisquam gravius afficitur, quàm qui ad supplicium poenitentiae trahitur. Sen. de Ira, l. 3. c. 29. It is one of Pythagoras's sayings, That a bad man suffereth more by the scourge of his own conscience, than one that is beaten with rods, and chastised in his body. Stob. serm. 24. Quod quisque fecit, patitur: authorem scelus Repetit, suoque praemitur exemplo nocens Sen. Her fur. Sed nemo ad id sero venit, unde nunquam Cum semel venit potuit reverti. Id. ibid.
§. 23. He that is under utter despair of ever coming out of this condition, will thereby have his torment yet more increased.
§. 23. He that is under utter despair of ever coming out of this condition, will thereby have his torment yet more encreased.
All these are natural undeniable consequents.