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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.
CHAP. XVI. Of the present sinful and miserable state of this World.
CHAP. XVI. Of the present sinfull and miserable state of this World.
1§. 1. Though all men may know all this before said to be their duty, 2and sin to be so evil, and to deserve such punishment, yet none do live perfectly without sin, according to the Law of Nature.
1§. 1. THough all men may know all this before said to be their duty, 2and sin to be so evil, and to deserve such punishment, yet none do live perfectly without sin, according to the Law of Nature.
- 1See the Citations in Marg. Cap.
- 2Bias in Laert. inquit, Ita amandum quasi edio simus habituri: Plurimos enim esse malos: And though Cicero in Lael. say, That it is a Sentence sapient plane indigna, it is his mistake of the sense of it. For it is true, that in well-grounded Friendship we must avoid suspicion, (which is all that Cicero pleads for): but yet we must know Men to be Men, and mutable: and all just Love is not well grounded intimate Friendship.Bias in Laert. inquit, Ita amandum quasi edio simus habituri: Plurimos enim esse malos: And though Cicero in Lael. say, That it is a Sentence sapiente plane indigna, it is his mistake of the sense of it. For it is true, that in well-grounded Friendship we must avoid suspicion, (which is all that Cicero pleads for): but yet we must know Men to be Men, and mutable: and all just Love is not well grounded intimate Friendship.