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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.
II. Your own party do not thus receive all in your Question. They teach and learn the Hebrew and Greek Grammars, and the Rules of Translating, and Criticize upon the Text, and search after the Copies to discern the best by intrinsic Characters, and by comparing them, as any man may see who readeth all your Grammarians, Critics and Commentators: And yet must we know Translations and Copies only by the Popes determination?
II. Your own party do not thus receive all in your Question. They teach and learn the Hebrew and Greek Grammars, and the Rules of Translating, and Criticize upon the Text, and search after the Copies to discern the best by intrinsick Characters, and by comparing them, as any man may see who readeth all your Gramarians, Criticks and Commentators: And yet must we know Translations and Copies only by the Popes determination?
III. Your own Popes ex Cathedra have given the Church various Translations: That Edition of the Vulgar Latin made by Sixtus 5. and that made about two years after Clemens 8. differ in so many hundred passages, and abundance of whole verses and sentences, that if a Bible be a Divine Revelation, one of them shamefully erred about Divine Revelations, or de fide. See Dr. James his Bellum Papal, and its Defence against Gretser. Where then is your Certainty?
III. Your own Popes ex Cathedra have given the Church various Translations: That Edition of the Vulgar Latine made by Sixtus 5. and that made about two years after Clemens 8. differ in so many hundred passages, and abundance of whole verses and sentences, that if a Bible be a Divine Revelation, one of them shamefully erred about Divine Revelations, or de fide. See Dr. Iames his Bellum Papale, and its Defence against Gretser. Where then is your Certainty?
IV. You are utterly uncertain and disagreed among your selves, who it is that hath this Ascertaining Determining Authority: