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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.
§. 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.
§. 24. A Body united to so miserable a self-tormenting forsaken Soul, cannot have any peace and quietness: seeing it ⟨p. 168⟩is the Soul by which the body liveth, and hath its chiefest peace or pains.
§. 25. Thus sin doth both as a Natural and as a Moral Meritorious cause bring on dissatisfaction, grief, vexation, desertion by God, and privation of felicity and peace.