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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.
§. 10. The parts which I am fully Certain of in the Scripture are, 1. All the Essentials of the Christian Religion; Because, 1. They are delivered in Scripture frequently, plainly, past all Controversy of which I will cite your testimonies anon. 2. Because they ⟨p. 19⟩were as certainly delivered to all Christians and Churches in the whole world distinctly by themselves, (twelve years before any of the New Testament was written, and above threescore and ten years before all of it was written,) even in the Covenant of Baptism, renewed in the Lords Supper, and in the Creed, Lords Prayer and Decalogue, which are the exposition of the Covenants, professed by all Christians, in all Christian Churches at every sacred meeting. And these two ways of Tradition (in Scripture and by themselves) are fuller than one.
§. 10. The parts which I am fully Certain of in the Scripture are, 1. All the Essentials of the Christian Religion; Because, 1. They are delivered in Scripture frequently, plainly, past all Controversie of which I will cite your testimonies anon. 2. Because they ⟨p. 19⟩were as certainly delivered to all Christians and Churches in the whole world distinctly by themselves, (twelve years before any of the New Testament was written, and above threescore and ten years before all of it was written,) even in the Covenant of Baptism, renewed in the Lords Supper, and in the Creed, Lords Prayer and Decalogue, which are the exposition of the Covenants, professed by all Christians, in all Christian Churches at every sacred meeting. And these two waies of Tradition (in Scripture and by themselves) are fuller than one.
2. And all the rest of the holy Scriptures in which the full concord of Copies, and the plainness of the words doth leave no room for rational doubting.