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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
Letter: This following Paper was sent me from an unknown person in a Letter, which had these wo…
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This following Paper was sent me from an unknown person in a Letter, which had these words.
SIR,
The business of this Paper is to beg a favour of you, of a public nature—an Answer to the enclosed Paper, which was sent me from a friend of mine who is a Papist, with an earnest desire that I would procure it to be answered. The resolution of which would be of use to us both in the things in Controversy between us—I cannot but wonder at the confidence of this deluded people, who though they are so often again and again Learnedly and Religiously writ ⟨image 5⟩against, yet they can with as great confidence and boasting challenge and dare the Ministers of Truth to encounter and answer them, in such kind of Papers, as if their tenets had never been refuted at all: And though I have referred my friend to your Books, that will not satisfy; but he doth as it were Goliath-like bid defiance to our Ministers, telling me that if any be so hardy, let them answer his Papers.
THe business of this Paper is to beg a favour of you, of a publick nature—an Answer to the inclosed Paper, which was sent me from a friend of mine who is a Papist, with an earnest desire that I would procure it to be answered. The resolution of which would be of use to us both in the things in Controversie between us—I cannot but wonder at the confidence of this deluded people, who though they are so often again and again Learnedly and Religiously writ