A44673:95
A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto
A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto by death some part whereof was preached on occasion of the death of John Hoghton Esq, eldest son of Sir Charles Hoghton of Hoghton-Tower in the county of Lancaster, Baronet / by John Howe ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1699
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.
It is also no slight consideration that a susceptibleness of Religion should among the Creatures that dwell on Earth be so appropriate, and peculiar to Man, and (some ⟨p. 44⟩rare Instances excepted) as far diffused, as Humane Nature. So as to induce some very considering Men, of the Ancients, as well as Moderns, both Pagans and Christians, to think Religion the more probable specifying Difference of Man, than Reason. And whence should so common an impression be, but from a cause as common? Or how can we avoid to think that this signature upon the Soul of Man, a capacity of Religion should be from the same hand that formed the spirit of Man within him, and that a Natural Religiousness, and Humane Nature it self, had the same Author. But who sees not that Religion as such, 1hath a final reference to a future state? He was no despicable Writer (tho' not a Christian) that positively affirmed, hope towards God to be essential to ⟨p. 45⟩Man; and that they that had it not, were not partakers of the Rational Nature.
It is also no slight consideration that a susceptibleness of Religion should among the Creatures that dwell on Earth be so appropriate, and peculiar to Man, and (some ⟨p. 44⟩rare Instances excepted) as far diffused, as Humane Nature. So as to induce some very considering Men, of the Antients, as well as Moderns, both Pagans and Christians, to think Religion the more probable specifying Difference of Man, than Reason. And whence should so common an impression be, but from a cause as common? Or how can we avoid to think that this signature upon the Soul of Man, a capacity of Religion should be from the same hand that formed the spirit of Man within him, and that a Natural Religiousness, and Humane Nature it self, had the same Author. But who sees not that Religion as such, 1hath a final reference to a future state? He was no despicable Writer (tho' not a Christian) that positively affirmed, hope towards God to be essential to ⟨p. 45⟩