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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.
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.]
And Sum. 1. q. 1. a. 8. ad secundum, he saith that [Sacred Doctrine useth the authority of the Canonical Scripture arguing properly and from necessity: but the authorities of other Doctors of the Church as arguing from its own, but Probably. For our faith resteth on the Revelation made to the Apostles and Prophets who wrote the Canonical Books; but not on the Revelation made to other ⟨p. 101⟩Doctors, if there were any such. Whence August. to Hier. I have learnt to give this honour only to the Books of Scripture called Canonical, as that I firmly believe that no Author of them did at all err in writing them. But others I read so as that how excellent soever they were in Learning and Holiness, I take it not to be therefore true because they so thought or wrote.]
And Summ. 1. q. 1. a. 8. ad secundum, he saith that [Sacred Doctrine useth the authority of the Canonical Scripture arguing properly and from necessity: but the authorities of other Doctors of the Church as arguing from its own, but Probably. For our faith resteth on the Revelation made to the Apostles and Prophets who wrote the Canonical Books; but not on the Revelation made to other ⟨p. 101⟩Doctors, if there were any such. Whence August. to Hier. I have learnt to give this honour only to the Books of Scripture called Canonical, as that I firmly believe that no Author of them did at all err in writing them. But others I read so as that how excellent soever they were in Learning and Holiness, I take it not to be therefore true because they so thought or wrote.]