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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.
§. 9. There is a great deal of senseless stupidity and hardheartedness on men, which maketh them sleepily neglect the greatest things which they are convinced of.
§. 10. There is in most a marvellous Inconsiderateness, as if they had not their Reason awake to use; so that they will not soberly and seriously think of the things which deeplyest concern them.
§. 11. Most men are so taken up with the concernments of their Bodies, 1that their Minds are pre-occupied and made unfit for higher things.
§. 11. Most men are so taken up with the concernments of their Bodies, 1that their Minds are pre-occupyed and made unfit for higher things.
- 1Diogenes crying, O homines addest! when a crowd came about him, drove them away, saying, Homines vocavi, non sterquilinia.Diogenes crying, O homines adeste! when a crowd came about him, drove them away, saying, Homines vocavi, non sterquilinia.