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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.
CHAP. II.
How much the wisest Papists are for our way of Resolving faith, before Luther's time by controversy perverted them.
How much the wisest Papists are for our way of Resolving faith, before Luthers time by controversie perverted them.
IT was ordinary, till Luther's disputing convinced them that the Scriptures would not serve their turn, for the wisest Papists, 1. To make Scripture the perfect Rule of faith, without the supplement of Tradition to add more; 2. And to give such Reasons for their Faith as we now do for ours.
IT was ordinary, till Luthers disputing convinced them that the Scriptures would not serve their turn, for the wisest Papists, 1. To make Scripture the perfect Rule of faith, without the supplement of Tradition to add more; 2. And to give such Reasons for their Faith as we now do for ours.
I. I must not be tedious in citing many. 1. Aquinas Cont. Gent. Cap. 9. fol. 3. saith [But the singular manner of convincing an adversary of this truth, is by the Authority of the Scripture confirmed of God by miracles.]