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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.
§. 3. Yea, there is an averseness and enmity in them, to the life which God in Nature doth prescribe them; and a strong inclination to a fleshly Life.
§. 3. Yea, there is an aversness and enmity in them, to the life which God in Nature doth prescribe them; and a strong inclination to a fleshly Life.
There needeth no other proof of this, than the wonderful difficulty which we find in persuading men to change their Lives, to live to God, and to forsake their sensuality and worldliness; and the abundance of Reason and labour that is lost upon them, when we cannot so much as make them willing.
There needeth no other proof of this, than the wonderfull difficulty which we find in perswading men to change their Lives, to live to God, and to forsake their sensuality and worldliness; and the abundance of Reason and labour that is lost upon them, when we cannot so much as make them willing.
§. 4. It is evident in the effect, that much of this cometh with us into the World.