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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.
Answ. A falsehood as easily denied as asserted without proof: If by Merit you mean ⟨p. 106⟩Rewardableness. For it is only Natural involuntary necessity which evacuateth moral Good or Evil. The will may show its virtue or vice in receiving or rejecting Objective ascertaining Evidence.
Answ. A falshood as easily denied as asserted without proof: If by Merit you mean ⟨p. 106⟩Rewardableness. For it is only Natural involuntary necessity which evacuateth moral Good or Evil. The will may shew its virtue or vice in receiving or rejecting Objective ascertaining Evidence.
The third is that it was not known of it self that this miracle attested the truth of what Christ said. But whether per se or by consequence, it is a most evident certainty, that a man, yea abundance of men that assert such a point of unspeakable consequence to the world, doing abundance of open notorious miracles as professed witnesses or proofs of their Doctrine, could not do this but by Gods extraordinary providence. And that if this be not to be taken for a Divine Testimony, we know of none that mortals are capable of, nor a possibility of the worlds escaping the deceit, as caused unresistibly by God. His Answers to this are not worthy the repeating.
The same Author, li. 3. d. 23. q 7. Enquiring of the Certainty of faith, whether it be certainer than Science, brings in the several answers of others: 1. That there is a Certainty of Evidence (and this Science hath,) and a Certainty of Adhesion, (and this Faith hath.) But this he rejecteth, and showeth (truly) that Adhesion is not properly Certainty, and also that the fullest Evidence causeth the closest Adhesion.