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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.
§. 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 Because that Experience showeth that the Threatening of Hell is necessary in the Law: therefore it self is necessary in the execution. 2. Because God doth not govern the World by deceit.
The Reasons I have given before, 1.1 Because that Experience sheweth that the Threatning of Hell is necessary in the Law: therefore it self is necessary in the execution. 2. Because God doth not govern the World by deceit.
- 1Peccati dolour & maximus & aeternus est. Cic. Att. 11. Itaque non ob ea solum incommoda quae eveniunt improbis, fugiendam improbitatem putamus, sed multo etiam magis, quod cujus in animo versatur, nunquam sinit eum respirare, nunquam quiescere; inq. Torquatus Epicureus in Cicer. ne fin. l. 1. p. 85.Peccati dolor & maximus & aeternus est. Cic. Att. 11. Itaque non ob ea solum incommoda quae eveniunt improbis, fugiendam improbitatem putamus, sed multo etiam magis, quod cujus in animo versatur, nunquam sinit eum respirare, nunquam quiescere; inq. Torquatus Epicureus in Cicer. ne fin. l. 1. p. 85.
§. 36. God will inflict more punishment for the final rejection of his Government, than Kings do for treason and rebellion against thousands.