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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.
Answ. 1. I have proved that the Law was necessary to the Government of this World: And if it was necessary that God say, [everlasting death shall be the wages of sin] then his Truth and Justice make the execution necessary afterwards.
2. When this life is ended, we look for a New Heaven and a New Earth wherein dwelleth righteousness: And the penalties of the sinners of this World, may be a means of that righteousness of the next; as the punishment of the Devils is a warning to us, and proposed to us for our terror and restraint.
3. How little know we, whether thousands of the Orbs which we see are not inhabited; and whether the penalties of Earthly sinners, may not be a warning to any of those superior Worlds. God hath not acquainted us with all the uses that he can make of sinners punishments: And therefore when Nature telleth us what is due, it is folly to say it will not be, because God hath no use for it.
3. How little know we, whether thousands of the Orbs which we see are not inhabited; and whether the penalties of Earthly sinners, may not be a warning to any of those superiour Worlds. God hath not acquainted us with all the uses that he can make of sinners punishments: And therefore when Nature telleth us what is due, it is folly to say it will not be, because God hath no use for it.