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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.
The same is to be said of divers sentences conjunct. The sense is known by the way that men learn to talk and to understand one another's speeches. And as you understand Baronius, Bellarmine, the Councils, or any of your Priests; even by the common acception of words, and reason setting them together, as man from his Infancy is taught to reason.
The same is to be said of divers sentences conjunct. The sense is known by the way that men learn to talk and to understand one anothers speeches. And as you understand Baronius, Bellarmine, the Councils, or any of your Priests; even by the common acception of words, and reason setting them together, as man from his Infancie is taught to reason.
§. 3. But as Infants understand not common talk till they are taught, nor children and untaught persons so well as men and Scholars; so the plainest things in Scripture require some use and consideration, and Teaching to the understanding of them: Much more the harder parts. And God hath made it the duty of Parents to teach the Scripture to their children at home and abroad, lying down and rising up, Deut. 6. & 11. without asking the Pope the sense of it: And God hath appointed the elder and wiser to teach the younger and more ignorant, and especially Pastors and Teachers, to teach the world, and instruct their flocks, to understand the word of God. Not barely to rest in their opinion and words, but to show men the same Evidence which doth convince themselves. Which Teaching is not a final Judging.
§. 3. But as Infants understand not common talk till they are taught, nor children and untaught persons so well as men and Scholars; so the plainest things in Scripture require some use and consideration, and Teaching to the understanding of them: Much more the harder parts. And God hath made it the duty of Parents to teach the Scripture to their children at home and abroad, lying down and rising up, Deut. 6. & 11. without asking the Pope the sense of it: And God hath appointed the elder and wiser to teach the younger and more ignorant, and especially Pastors and Teachers, to teach the world, and instruct their flocks, to understand the word of God. Not barely to rest in their opinion and words, but to shew men the same Evidence which doth convince themselves. Which Teaching is not a final Iudging.