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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.
The first is, Because Demonstration necessitateth the understanding to believe: But many that saw Lazarus raised, &c. believed not Christ to be God, &c. Therefore Miracles were not a sufficient demonstration.
Answ. Not sufficient to all things, but sufficient to do their own part. By this you would prove that there is no demonstration of any thing almost in the world; For there is almost nothing which convinceth all men. I distinguish therefore of a disposed and an indisposed understanding. And as to the later I deny the major. Demonstrations constrain not millions of undisposed Intellects. Recipitur ad modum recipientis. What need any other proof than your oft mentioned denial of Bread in the Eucharist? Because millions deny the perception of all mens Senses and Intellects thereby, are not things sensible demonstrable or evident? Can you hope to bring more cogent proof, And yet this is rejected: And so were Christs miracles.
Answ. Not sufficient to all things, but sufficient to do their own part. By this you would prove that there is no demonstration of any thing almost in the world; For there is almost nothing which convinceth all men. I distinguish therefore of a disposed and an indisposed understanding. And as to the later I deny the major. Demonstrations constrein not millions of undisposed Intellects. Recipitur ad modum recipientis. What need any other proof than your oft mentioned denial of Bread in the Eucharist? Because millions deny the perception of all mens Senses and Intellects thereby, are not things sensible demonstrable or evident? Can you hope to bring more cogent proof, And yet this is rejected: And so were Christs miracles.
The second is Gregory, Faith hath no merit, where humane reason hath experience, and there is Science.