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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.
§. 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.
All this is proved if we walk but in the World with open eyes.
§. 12. The Love of the World and fleshly pleasure, is so powerful in the most, that they love not the Holy Law of God, which forbiddeth them that sensuality, and commandeth them a holy and temperate life.
§. 12. The Love of the World and fleshly pleasure, is so powerfull in the most, that they love not the Holy Law of God, which forbiddeth them that sensuality, and commandeth them a holy and temperate life.