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The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholic-Protestant or the papist have…The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholick-Protestant or the papist have…
The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholic-Protestant or the papist have the surer faith being an answer to one of the oft canted questions and challenges of the papists, sent to one who desired this : published to direct the unskilful, how to defend their faith against papists and infidels, but especially against the temptations of the Devil, that by saving their faith, they may save their holiness, their comfort and their souls / by Richard Baxter.The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholick-Protestant or the papist have the surer faith being an answer to one of the oft canted questions and challenges of the papists, sent to one who desired this : published to direct the unskilful, how to defend their faith against papists and infidels, but especially against the temptations of the Devil, that by saving their faith, they may save their holiness, their comfort and their souls / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1672
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§. 2. I suppose you to remember that it is not subjective Certainty (in our selves) that we speak of, but Objective; which may be at hand when men see it not. And that it is not mere Truth which we now speak of, but the Evidence of Truth, or its perceptibility, and that neither the lowest, nor only the highest degree, but any of the various degrees which truly satisfy quiet and resolve the soul.
§. 2. I suppose you to remember that it is not subjective Certainty (in our selves) that we speak of, but Objective; which may be at hand when men see it not. And that it is not meer Truth which we now speak of, but the Evidence of Truth, or its perceptibility, and that neither the lowest, nor only the highest degree, but any of the various degrees which truly satisfie quiet and resolve the soul.
§. 3. And that Objective Infallibility or Certainty, is 1. Not only that which deceiveth no man which receiveth it (for that's the case of all truth) 2. Nor yet that which no man can be deceived about (for that is nothing ⟨p. 31⟩at all, that I remember, unless it be me cogitare, vel sentire.) 3. But it is that which, in all its right conditions, may give a man satisfactory, resolving certainty of mind.
4. To this is necessary, I. That the Thing have intrinsically the requisites of an Object. II. That it have extrinsically the necessary concomitant conditions.
4. To this is necessary, I. That the Thing have intrinsecally the requisites of an Object. II. That it have extrinsecally the necessary concomitant conditions.