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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.
But all Christians do not agree; and it is the sole point wherein Christians differ:
Whether God hath Revealed or said what is proposed to us as his Revelation: Or as the sense intended by him by that which they all agree to be his Revelation.
And this is purely matter of Fact, (viz.) 1. Whether several Books affirmed and proposed to us as the Revelations ⟨image 6⟩of God be truly so. For Instance, the Old Testament affirmed by some to be, and proposed as the Revelations of God, are denied by the Valentinians and the Manichees. The Gospels of St. Mark, St. Luke, St. John, and all St. Pauls Epistles, proposed by some Christians as the Revelations of God, are denied by others, namely by the Ebionites. So likewise several parties agreeing several Books to be Scripture and the Revelation of God, do notwithstanding differ touching the Copies, and touching the Translations; Some affirming one Copy to be true, and one Translation to be true, whilst others expressly say, that Copy is false, and that Translation false. And Lastly, several parties agreeing the Books to be Scripture, the Copies true, and the Translations true, and to be the Revelation of God, do nevertheless differ touching ⟨image 6⟩the sense, each party delivering a particular sense of such a Text, and proposing such sense, as the sense, and the only sense Revealed by God, to be intended by God by that Text, and each proposed sense being contrary to the other.
And this is purely matter of Fact, (viz.) 1. Whether several Books affirmed and proposed to us as the Revelations ⟨image 6⟩