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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.
2. To the more Comfortable progress, and the melius esse of Christians and the Churches, as great a Concord and Certainty in the Integrals of Christianity is needful, as the degree of melius esse doth require.
3. To mens peaceable and comfortable Communion in Christian Societies, an Unity and consequently knowledge of the points of Christian Love and holy communion is necessary.
4. To our Heavenly Union, Heavenly perfection is necessary.
§. 6. But to insinuate that a Certainty of the sense of all the Scripture, or all that God ⟨p. 56⟩hath revealed to us Objectively, or of all that Popes and Councils determine, is necessary to that unity of faith, which maketh all Christians to be Christians, and one body of Christ, is but a cheating trick, which is against Scripture, reason and their own Doctors.