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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.
§. 14. Therefore they love not God himself, as he is Holy, and Governeth them by a Holy Law, which is so much against their inclinations; 1as he forbiddeth them all their sinful pleasure, and threateneth damnation to them if they rebel: Especially as his Justice will execute this: Indeed their aversation from God in these respects, is no less than a Hating Him as God.
§. 14. Therefore they love not God himself, as he is Holy, and Governeth them by a Holy Law, which is so much against their inclinations; 1as he forbiddeth them all their sinfull pleasure, and threatneth damnation to them if they rebell: Especially as his Justice will execute this: Indeed their aversation from God in these respects, is no less than a Hating Him as God.
- 1And when Themistocles had a Farm to sell, he bid the Crier tell it as its great commendation, that there was an honest Neighbour dwelt near it, intimating the paucity of such.And when Themistocles had a Farm to sell, he bid the Cryer tell it as its great commendation, that there was an honest Neighbour dwelt neer it, intimating the paucity of such.
§. 15. These Vices working continually in mens hearts, do fill them with deceiving thoughts, and distracting passions, and unquietness, and engage them in self-troubling ways, and deprive them of the Comforts of the Love of God, and of a Holy life, and of the well-grounded hope of future blessedness.
§. 15. These Vices working continually in mens hearts, do fill them with deceiving thoughts, and distracting passions, and unquietness, and engage them in self-troubling wayes, and deprive them of the Comforts of the Love of God, and of a Holy life, and of the well-grounded hope of future blessedness.