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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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§. 19. 3. There are other points which are so greatly congruous to the common experience of mankind, as that they have also a Certainty in the thing from that experience; As the common pravity of mans nature, and the great necessity that we have of Deliverance by Pardon and Sanctification; the malice and endeavour of Devils or evil ⟨p. 37⟩spirits to tempt us from God, and destroy us; the need of Gods continual help against them and our selves, with such like. And these also we have a double Revelation of.
§. 20. 4. The Principal part of the Supernatural Revelations, are so exceeding congruous to those which are of Natural and Experienced Certainty, and are so aptly adjoined to them, and have so Divine a design and tendency apparent in them, as that they are the more easily believed.
§. 20. 4. The Principal part of the Supernatural Revelations, are so exceeding congruous to those which are of Natural and Experienced Certainty, and are so aptly adjoyned to them, and have so Divine a design and tendency apparent in them, as that they are the more easily believed.
§. 21. 5. And the main frame of the book hath so much of the same spirit and design, and is adapted to the Communication of these principal parts (that is, the Essentials of Christianity) and thereto so compaginated, as that the Belief of the said Essentials, maketh it the more easy to believe that the whole system of books is of God.
§. 21. 5. And the main frame of the book hath so much of the same spirit and design, and is adapted to the Communication of these principal parts (that is, the Essentials of Christianity) and thereto so compaginated, as that the Belief of the said Estials, maketh it the more easie to believe that the whole system of books is of God.