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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.
1. How else should it be so universal as it is? How should it be found in all sorts of Constitutions and Complexions? and in every Country and Age till now? 2. How should it work so early in Children as commonly it doth? 3. How cometh it to prevail against the best Education, Helps and Means? Certainly all of us feel from our childhood too much of the truth of this?
1. How else should it be so universal as it is? How should it be found in all sorts of Constitutions and Complexions? and in every Countrey and Age till now? 2. How should it work so early in Children as commonly it doth? 3. How cometh it to prevail against the best Education, Helps and Means? Certainly all of us feel from our childhood too much of the truth of this?
§. 5. This natural pravity is quickly increased, 1by the advantage of sensuality, which is active before Reason cometh to any power of resistance, and so getteth stronger possession by Custom, and groweth to a confirmed habit.
§. 5. This natural pravity is quickly encreased, 1by the advantage of sensuality, which is active before Reason cometh to any power of resistance, and so getteth stronger possession by Custom, and groweth to a confirmed habit.
- 1In uno annulo omnes boni principes possunt insculpi, inquit quidam in Vopisc. Aurel.
§. 6. And if vicious Education by vicious Parents be added, and bad company second that, and the vulgar course, or Rulers countenance concur, the corrupt inclination is quickly more radicated, and next to a Nature.