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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.
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.
They are like Children that cry for what they love,1 and will not be restrained by telling them that its unwholesome: Reason signifieth nothing with them, as long as Sense and Appetite gainsay it: They are angry with all that crosseth their Appetites, though it be to save their Lives: The Sense is become the predominant power in them, and Reason is dethroned, and hath left its power: Therefore Gods Law ⟨p. 178⟩is unacceptable and hateful to these brutish people; because it is quite against their inclination, and that which the Flesh doth call their Interest and Good.
They are like Children that cry for what they love,1 and will not be restrained by telling them that its unwholsom: Reason signifieth nothing with them, as long as Sense and Appetite gainsay it: They are angry with all that crosseth their Appetites, though it be to save their Lives: The Sense is become the predominant power in them, and Reason is dethroned, and hath left its power: Therefore Gods Law