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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.
XII. If the Pope and his Council know the Certainty of these things, it is either by Evidence and History as all men may do, or by Inspiration. If by Historical Evidence, it is extant before: If by Inspiration, let them prove themselves to be Prophets: Either by their Prophesyings, Miracles, or other Evidences, that may satisfy a man that is not mad.
XII. If the Pope and his Council know the Certainty of these things, it is either by Evidence and History as all men may do, or by Inspiration. If by Historical Evidence, it is extant before: If by Inspiration, let them prove themselves to be Prophets: Either by their Prophesyings, Miracles, or other Evidences, that may satisfie a man that is not mad.
XIII. Alphonsus a Castro tells us, some Popes understood not Grammar, and common history tells us what lads and ignorant fellows divers of them have been; And their own writers and General Councils tell us how horridly wicked many of them have been, (as Joh. 22. Eugenius and other damned as heretics by Councils: And Honorius the Monothelite, &c.) And is it probable that God should Inspire to Infallibility, Heretics, Ignorant fellows, debauched wicked men, and work a Miracle to teach them to know that Infallibly which they knew not at all? When the Scripture and Nature tell us how he abhorreth such men.
XIII. Alphonsus a Castro tells us, some Popes understood not Grammar, and common history tells us what lads and ignorant fellows divers of them have been; And their own writers and General Councils tell us how horridly wicked many of them have been, (as Ioh. 22. Eugenius and other damned as hereticks by Councils: And Honorius the Monothelite, &c.) And is it probable that God should Inspire to Infallibility, Hereticks, Ignorant fellows, debauched wicked men, and work a Miracle to teach them to know that Infallibly which they knew not at all? When the Scripture and Nature tell us how he abhorreth such men.