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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
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§. 5. IV. And what he meaneth by [Principle] I know not. 1. There is a Physical or Hyperphysical Principle of Being, and there is a natural principle of notification, and there is a Logical principle of notification. 1. Our intellective faculties are the natural apprehending principle. 2. The spirit of God is the supreme moving principle of Influx. 3. The intrinsic and adherent ⟨p. 11⟩evidence of the thing in it self, is the natural notifying principle: which is as various as things are. 4. The Premises as inferring the conclusion are the Logical Principles of derivative certainty.
§. 5. IV. And what he meaneth by [Principle] I know not. 1. There is a Physical or Hyperphysical Principle of Being, and there is a natural principle of notification, and there is a Logical principle of notification. 1. Our intellective faculties are the natural apprehending principle. 2. The spirit of God is the supream moving principle of Influx. 3. The intrinsick and adherent ⟨p. 11⟩evidence of the thing in it self, is the natural notifying principle: which is as various as things are. 4. The Premises as inferring the conclusion are the Logical Principles of derivative certainty.
§. 6. V. And I scarce know what he meaneth by [Medium] he seemeth to take it for the same with [Principle]. There are media essendi which I suppose he meaneth not (means to make us Articles of faith, or to make them True); but rather the media cognoscendi: But these are necessarily more than one. 1. There are the media by which we hear the word and receive the Bible as it is. 2. There are the media by which we come to understand—the sense of the words. 3. There are the media by which we know the difference between the several parts of the Book, the more certain and the more doubtful, and the different copies and readings, and the different translations. 4. There are the media by which we know that these Doctrines and these Books are the same which were delivered to the Churches by the Apostles, &c. 5. There are the media by which we know that Miracles were wrought by Christ and his Apostles and other Christians in confirmation of the Gospel. 6. And there are the media by