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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.
§. 28. God is not bound to sanctify the mind and will of such a self-destroying sinner, who hath turned away himself from God and Happiness.
§. 28. God is not bound to sanctifie the mind and will of such a self-destroying sinner, who hath turned away himself from God and Happiness.
1And without a renewed Mind it is morally and unnaturally impossible that he should be happy. He that would not use the Mercy that would have saved him, in the day of mercy, cannot require another life of mercy and trial, when this is lost and cast away, nor can require the further helps of grace.
- 1— Nam quis Peccandi finem posuit sibi, quando recepit Erectum semel attrita de fionte ruborem? Quisnam hominum est quem tu contentum videris uno Ilagitio• Juvea. 3.
§. 29. If sin as sin have all the malignity and demerit before proved, much more the aggravated sins of many; and most of all a life of wickedness, which is spent in enmity against God ⟨p. 169⟩and Godliness, and in a course of sensuality and rebellion, 1with the obstinate, impenitent, rejecting of all the counsel, calls and mercies which would reclaim the sinner, and this to the last breath.
- 1In omni in juria permultum interest, utrum perturbation aliquâ animi quae plerumque brevis est, an consultè fiat: Leviora enim sunt ea, quae repentino aliquo motu accidunt, quàm ea quae praemeditata & praeparata inferuntur. Cic. 3. Offic.