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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
Part 1 › Chapter 2: Of Man as Related to the things below him.
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.
CHAP. II. Of Man as Related to the things below him.
1§. 1. There are other things, called Inanimates and Brutes, in being, besides Man.
1§. 1. THere are other things, called Inanimates and Bruits, in being, besides Man.
- 1Aliorum causâ omnia generata sunt, ut effruges atque fructus quos terra gignit animantium causâ; animantes autem hominum; ut equum vehendi causâ, &c. Ipse autem homo ortus est ad mundum contemplandum, &c. Cicer. 2. de Nat. Deor.
My understanding by the help of all my senses, telleth me, that there are Beasts and Birds, Trees and Herbs, and that I live among a multitude of Beings, inferior to Man. Though I may be ignorant of their Principles, and many things in their Natures, yet can I no more doubt of their being than of mine own, nor of the inferiority of their natures, when I see their inferior operations.
My understanding by the help of all my senses, telleth me, that there are Beasts and Birds, Trees and Herbs, and that I live among a multitude of Beings, inferiour to Man. Though I may be ignorant of their Principles, and many things in their Natures, yet can I no more doubt of their being than of mine own, nor of the inferiority of their natures, when I see their inferiour operations.