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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.
§. 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.
§. 6. And if vicious Education by vicious Parents be added, and bad company second that, and the vulgar course, or Rulers countenance concurr, the corrupt inclination is quickly more radicated, and next to a Nature.
§. 7. Many so far prevail against the light and law of Nature, 1as to grow strange to God and to themselves, to their end, and their work. Even to doubt whether there be a God, or whether they have any other life to live, and whether Holiness be good and necessary, and sin be bad and deserve any punishment.
§. 7. Many so farr prevail against the light and law of Nature, 1as to grow strange to God and to themselves, to their end, and their work. Even to doubt whether there be a God, or whether they have any other life to live, and whether Holiness be good and necessary, and sin be bad and deserve any punishment.
- 1Seneca saith, That a good man is a Phoenix, born once in five hundred years. Ep. 42,
§. 8. There is a great deal of sottish unteachableness on the minds and wills of men, 1which hindereth their conviction and reformation.