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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.
1Though they have such a present pleasure as prevaileth with them, it bringeth speedy smart and trouble: Just like the pleasure of scratching to a man that hath the Itch, which is quickly recompensed with smart if he go deep: Or like the pleasure of drinking cold water to a man in a Fever, or a Dropsy,2 which increaseth the disease. Sin is their sickness, and corrupteth their appetites, and though it have its proper pleasure, it depriveth them of the pleasures and benefits of health.
1Though they have such a present pleasure as prevaileth with them, it bringeth speedy smart and trouble: Just like the pleasure of scratching to a man that hath the Itch, which is quickly recompensed with smart if he go deep: Or like the pleasure of drinking cold water to a man in a Feaver, or a Dropsie,2 which increaseth the disease. Sin is their sickness, and corrupteth their appetites, and though it have its proper pleasure, it depriveth them of the pleasures and benefits of health.
- 1Ut Scarabaei & vultures unguentis offenduntur, —ita non omnibus placent optima. Plutarch.
- 2Vir bonus & sapiens qualem vix repperit unum. Millibus è cunctis hominum consultus Apollo. &c. Virg. Vitio nostra quae amamus defendimus; & malumus ea excusare quam excutere. Sen. Ep. 117.
§. 16. These vices also so deprave sometimes, making every wicked man to be principally for HIMSELF and for his LUSTS, that they are commonly distracted with envy, malice, contention, persecutions, the fruits of Pride, and Covetousness and sensuality; and these diseases are still troubling them, till they work their ruin where they do prevail.