The reasons of the Christian religion. The first part, of godliness: proving by natural evidence the being of God , the necessity of holiness, and a future life of retribution; the sinfulness of the world; the desert of hell; and what hope of recovery mercies intimate; The second part, of Christianity: proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief; ... First meditated for the well-setling of his own belief; and now published for the benefit of others
A 1667 London religious treatise by the Puritan divine Richard Baxter, printed by R. White for F. Titon, offering reasoned arguments for Christian belief to general readers. Its four pictures are small woodcut decorative initial letters, a fancy I and T in interlaced foliage, a B with flowers and leaves, and a boxed T ringed by crowns, roses and blossoms, which a designer could borrow for hand-lettered drop caps or border ornament.
