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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.
And though ⟨p. 173⟩right improved Reason, which hath higher expectations, makes a greater matter of the loss of them; yet sensual men so brutine themselves, that they grow contented with the felicity of a Brute, and are not much troubled that they have no more. Annihilation therefore certainly is a penalty utterly insufficient, even to keep any common Order in the World (as I proved before): And therefore it is certain, that the penalty inflicted hereafter will be greater than Annihilation: And if so, it must contain, with the Being of the Creature, a suffering worse than the loss of Being.
And though ⟨p. 173⟩right improved Reason, which hath higher expectations, makes a greater matter of the loss of them; yet sensual men so brutine themselves, that they grow contented with the felicity of a Bruit, and are not much troubled that they have no more. Annihilation therefore certainly is a penalty utterly insufficient, even to keep any common Order in the World (as I proved before): And therefore it is certain, that the penalty inflicted hereafter will be greater than Annihilation: And if so, it must contain, with the Being of the Creature, a suffering worse than the loss of Being.
§. 35. The Belief of a Hell or endless punishment, being that which is de facto the restraint of the Obedient part of the World, and that which proveth too weak with the Disobedient part, it thence followeth, that a Hell or endless punishment will be inflicted.
The Reasons I have given before, 1.1