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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.
§. 17. The same vices set Kingdoms and other Common-wealths together in bloody Wars, and cause men to study to destroy one another, and glory in the success, and fill the World ⟨p. 179⟩with rapine and violence by Sea and Land; and make it seem as necessary to their own preservation, to kill one another as their enemies, as to kill Toads and Serpents, Wolves and Tigers, and much more; and with much more care, and cost, and industry is it done.1
§. 17. The same vices set Kingdoms and other Common-wealths together in bloody Warrs, and cause men to study to destroy one another, and glory in the success, and fill the World ⟨p. 179⟩with rapine and violence by Sea and Land; and make it seem as necessary to their own preservation, to kill one another as their enemies, as to kill Toads and Serpents, Wolves and Tygers, and much more; and with much more care, and cost, and industry is it done.1
- 1Absurdum est putare eum qui ab aliquibus ex bono malus fuerit factus, eundem ab illis iterum ex malo bonum fieri posse. Dion. Hal. 11.
§. 18. If any wise and charitable persons would heal these vices, and reconcile these contentions, and persuade persons and Nations to a holy, sober, peaceable course, they are commonly hated and persecuted, they seldom succeed, nor can their counsel be heard, through the multitude and fury of the vicious, whose folly and violence beareth down all.1
§. 18. If any wise and charitable persons would heal these vices, and reconcile these contentions, and perswade persons and Nations to a holy, sober, peaceable course, they are commonly hated and persecuted, they seldom succeed, nor can their counsel be heard, through the multitude and fury of the vicious, whose folly and violence beareth down all.