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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.
§. 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 ⟨p. 12⟩which we know that this Gospel and these Books are true. And all these are not to be confounded, by the simple pretence of calling for a fixed medium or principle.
§. 7. VI. [Determining] signifieth either the private decision or determining of doubts in the minds of particular persons; or else the public decision of doubts as they are managed in the Church, by a public Judge. And this either as binding mens Consciences or Minds what to believe, or only as ruling their tongues, and actions, in teaching and conversation.
§. 7. VI. [Determining] signifieth either the private decision or determining of doubts in the minds of particular persons; or else the publick decision of doubts as they are managed in the Church, by a publick Judge. And this either as binding mens Consciences or Minds what to believe, or only as ruling their tongues, and actions, in teaching and conversation.