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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.
And this three or fourfold witness or attestation of the spirit, (sometime Antecedent, always Constitutive, Concomitant, and subsequent) though a holy soul that is suited to it, and hath the witness in it self may most fully and certainly discern, yet another also may discern; The Miracles being Intelligible attestations to them, and the beauty of Wisdom and Holiness in the Scripture and in the Saints being refulgent and discernible by a stander by, though not as by a possessor.
And this three or foursold witness or attestation of the spirit, (sometime Antecedent, alwaies Constitutive, Concomitant, and subsequent) though a holy soul that is suited to it, and hath the witness in it self may most fully and certainly discern, yet another also may discern; The Miracles being Intelligible attestations to them, and the beauty of Wisdom and Holiness in the Scripture and in the Saints being refulgent and discernable by a stander by, though not as by a possessor.
§. 9. But I have not an equal Certainty of all the parts of it, that they are the word of God, because, 1. All the Books, Texts and Readings are not brought to me with equal historical Evidence. 2. And there are abundance of passages in it which are but Accidental to the Christian Religion which have not the same self-evidencing lustre in them as the Essentials have. And there is no Necessity of an equal knowledge of the parts.
§. 9. But I have not an equal Certainty of all the parts of it, that they are the word of God, because, 1. All the Books, Texts and Readings are not brought to me with equal historical Evidence. 2. And there are abundance of passages in it which are but Accidental to the Christian Religion which have not the same self-evidencing luster in them as the Essentials have. And there is no Necessity of an equal knowledge of the parts.