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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.
XXVIII. We see by experience in the foresaid Nations, and feel in our selves, that men may have a certain faith without receiving it from the Pope. Can you make me know that I do not believe, when I know that I do? And can you prove that only the third part of Christians in the world are true Christians, and have Certain faith, because all the rest receive it not from the Pope? and why ⟨p. 91⟩may not the major part of the Church be sure as well as he?
XXIX. Hath the Church a twofold foundation for faith? If the Pope and Council believe Gods word to be his word on one Ground, and all other men on another ground, (that is, because they say it,) then we have two faiths and two Churches on two foundations. But if otherwise, then Pope and Council do as we must do (by their doctrine,) even believe it, because they say it themselves.
XXX. The Councils Decrees of Faith are so Voluminous that not one Priest of forty knoweth them all; and not one lay man of many thousand: The very bulk therefore of your faith, must make it more uncertain than ours is: And who can tell whether he have it all?
XXX. The Councils Decrees of Faith are so Voluminous that not one Priest of fourty knoweth them all; and not one lay man of many thousand: The very bulk therefore of your faith, must make it more uncertain than ours is: And who can tell whether he have it all?