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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.
§. 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.1
- 1Ubi divitiae honori sunt, & eas gloria, imperium, potentia, hebescere virtus, paupertas probro haberi innocentia pro malevolentia duci incipit. Sallust. in Cattilin.Ubi divitiae honori sunt, & eas gloria, imperium, potentia, hebescere virtus, paupertas probro haberi innocentia pro malevolentia duci incipit. Salust. in Cattilin.
§. 19. And God himself doth give the sinful World a taste of his displeasure by painful sicknesses, consuming Plagues, Famines, Poverty, and many the like Calamities, which fall upon mankind.
§. 19. And God himself doth give the sinfull World a taste of his displeasure by painfull sicknesses, consuming Plagues, Famines, Poverty, and many the like Calamities, which fall upon mankinde.