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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.
XXXIX. You destroy or greatly discredit the Grand Evidence of the Christian faith, even Miracles: How then can your faith be the most Certain? For when you pretend that Miracles are as common through all the world as Priests Masses are (in turning bread into no bread as aforesaid) and yet no man seeth any proof of one such Miracle, when really it is no less than Christs Resurrection which you pretend to be so common before all the Churches; what is this but to tempt men to take all the Scripture and Apostolical Miracles to be no surer? And then where is our faith?
XL. Lastly, I end where I almost began: If our sense be true, the Pope and his Council are false, and therefore our faith not to be received only nor chiefly on their trust. For their faith teacheth us, not to believe Gods most Natural Revelations, to the sound senses and Intellective perception of all men in the world, as I have showed about the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament: And when a Controversy it brought to sense it self we can bring it no lower: And when we must either believe your faith and its foundation false, or believe Gods most Natural Evident Revelation false, and all mens Senses and Intellective perception false, we are not able, I say not able, to be of your faith.
XL. Lastly, I end where I almost began: If our sense be true, the Pope and his Council are false, and therefore our faith not to be received only nor chiefly on their trust. For their faith teacheth us, not to believe Gods most Natural Revelations, to the sound senses and Intellective perception of all men in the world, as I have shewed about the Bread and Wine in the Sacrament: And when a Controversie it brought to sense it self we can bring it no lower: And when we must either believe your faith and its foundation false, or believe Gods most Natural Evident Revelation false, and all mens Senses and Intellective perception false, we are not able, I say not able, to be of your faith.