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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.
Bellarm. de verbo Dei, lib. 4. c. 11. [In the Christian Doctrine both of faith and manners, some things are simply necessary to the salvation of all, as the knowledge of the articles of the Apostles Creed, of the ten Commandments and of the Sacraments. The rest are not so necessary that a man cannot be saved without the explicit knowledge, belief and profession of them—These things which are simply necessary and profitable to all, the Apostles preached to all—All things are written by the Apostles which are necessary to all, and which they openly preached to all.]
Bellarm. de verbo Dei, lib. 4. c. 11. [In the Christian Doctrine both of faith and manners, some things are simply necessary to the salvation of all, as the knowledge of the articles of the Apostles Creed, of the ten Commandments and of the Sacraments. The rest are not so necessary that a man cannot be saved without the explicite knowledge, belief and profession of them—These things which are simply necessary and profitable to all, the Apostles preached to all—All things are written by the Apostles which are necessary to all, and which they openly preached to all.]
Costerus in Enchirid. cap. 1. p. 49. [We do not deny that those chief heads of faith ⟨p. 21⟩which to all Christians are necessary to be known to Salvation, are plainly enough comprehended in the writings of the Apostles.]
§. 13. By the way, hence judge of the juggling of your praters, when they call to us for a Catalogue of Essentials, or Fundamentals, as if no such distinction were to be made.
§. 13. By the way, hence judge of the jugling of your praters, when they call to us for a Catalogue of Essentials, or Fundamentals, as if no such distinction were to be made.