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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.
CHAP. XIII.
What the Papists ascertaining Medium is, and why we reject it.
§. 1. Though I will not entitle my Answer as Mr. Pool doth his book, The Nullity of the Romish faith, yet you might be ashamed if you have any modesty lest, to go about still with confident challenges with the same case, whilst neither that book of his, nor his Dialogue, nor the many in which I fully answer this very Question, have any reply. And indeed I have said so much to this point already, that without repeating the same things, I scarce know what is yet to say. Almost the whole book called The Safe Religion is of it; But most directly all the third part: Where pag. 186, 187. I briefly and plainly give you the grounds and resolution of the Protestants faith. And pag. 189. and forward I show you the lamentable difference among the Papists about the Resolution of ⟨p. 61⟩their faith. And pag. 195. and forward I give you abundance of unresistible Arguments to prove, 1. That It belongeth not to the Pope and Roman Church to be the Judge of Scriptures to all the world. 2. That they are not Infallible. 3. That our faith must not be resolved into their Infallible Judgement. And in my Reasons for the Christian Religion; and in my more Reasons for it, and in my Life of Faith, I have fully opened and defended the reasons, resolution and certainty of our faith. But seeing their Impudency and Designs are such, as that nothing of this must be considered (though they are referred to it,) but they must lay snares for souls, by canting over the same things, and calling out for that Answer which they will not take notice of when it is before them, some more they shall have, for the sake of those whom they would deceive: But in great brevity lest I tire the Reader by repetitions of things that have been so often said.