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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
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.
Quest. VII. What Certainty have we of the true sense of the Text.
§. 1. Answ. This Question is partly the same with the former; For to Translate is to give the sense of the original, in other words. The sense is either, 1. The sense of single terms; 2. Or the sense of propositions and sentences, 3. Or the sense of many sentences conjunct in Method.
§. 1. Answ. THis Question is partly the same with the former; For to Translate is to give the sense of the original, in other words. The sense is either, 1. The sense of single terms; 2. Or the sense of propositions and sentences, 3. Or the sense of many sentences conjunct in Method.
§. 2. The first is known to Translators as is aforesaid; As you know the sense of all words of all languages; by common usage and common Tradition.
The second is made up of the first by common reason; As a sentence is made up of common words. He that understandeth what these words [Repentance] and [is] and [necessary] signify; may know without a Pope, what this sentence signifieth [Repentance is necessary].