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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…

Name: The certainty of Christianity without popery, or, Whether the Catholic-Protestant or the papist have…
Author: Richard Baxter

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.

Richard Baxter 1615–1691London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1672

[17], 112 p. · 22k words · Wing B1213 · ESTC R5291

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CHAP. III.

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That where the Learned Papists differ from us, they are so far from building on a Certainer foundation that, so far they are forced to deny all Certainty of faith.

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TO prove this it may suffice to mind the Learned Reader how even the most judicious (as Greg. Armin. Prologue. Estius and commonly most Schoolmen, deny a proper Certainty of Evidence to faith: Not only ⟨p. 104⟩that the Object is not Evident to sense, which all confess, but that the truth of the conclusion is not Demonstrable, and that Faith is a pious act of the Election of the will, which were not meritorious, if it had rational demonstration or evidence. And that it is but opinion which is resolved into humane Authority: and yet that they believe the Scripture to be Gods word, and this or that to be the sense merely, because the Church holdeth it. I cannot stay to cite many. Plain Durandus shall be instead of all: Who Prologue. q. 1. saith p. 6. c. 1. Faith which resteth on humane Authority differeth not from opinion: because the place from humane authority is topical, and an argument thence taken is the weakest: And therefore the faith which resteth on that authority is the weakest opinion. But pag. 9. of the faith which resteth on Gods authority, he granteth us. that it may stand with Science of many of the same things, and that Divine authority and demonstrative reason may concur to cause the same assent. But p. 10. he dissenteth from them that hold that Gods attestations were such to those that saw Christs Miracles and Resurrection, &c. as certainly proved the truth of his Godhead, and so of his word (which is Aquinas his honest Doctrine 3. q. 43. act. 4. against which Durandus writeth

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Author

Richard Baxter 1615–1691

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London

Bookseller

Nevil Simons

Year

1672

Size

[17], 112 p.

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21,681

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Wing B1213 · ESTC R5291

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EEBO-TCP A26887

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288

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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…

CHAP. III.

That where the Learned Papists differ from us, they are so far from building on a Certainer foundation that, so far they are forced to deny all Certainty of faith.

CHAP. IV.

That the most Learned Doctors of the Church of Rome resolve their faith (in earnest or jest) into such an Inspiration of the Pope and Prelates in Council, as the Apostles had, and so are mere Fanatics: And this against notorious sense and experience.

That the most Learned Doctors of the Church of Rome resolve their faith (in earnest or jeast) into such an Inspiration of the Pope and Prelates in Council, as the Apostles had, and so are meer Fanaticks: And this against notorious sense and experience.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. III.

That where the Learned Papists differ from us, they are so far from building on a Certainer foundation that, so far they are forced to deny all Certainty of faith.

CHAP. IV.

That the most Learned Doctors of the Church of Rome resolve their faith (in earnest or jest) into such an Inspiration of the Pope and Prelates in Council, as the Apostles had, and so are mere Fanatics: And this against notorious sense and experience.

That the most Learned Doctors of the Church of Rome resolve their faith (in earnest or jeast) into such an Inspiration of the Pope and Prelates in Council, as the Apostles had, and so are meer Fanaticks: And this against notorious sense and experience.

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