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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.
TO THE Protestant Reader.
IT is for your Reading, and not for the Papists chiefly that I publish this short and hasty writing. For I may probably prognosticate of them, 1. That the lay men will not, must not read it; 2. That the Priests, will not read it with any impartiality, as Lovers of Truth; 3. That what they cannot answer they will silently dissemble, or if any meddle with it, they will either take some scrap and leave the rest; or they will spend paper in cavilling at my 40. Reasons ⟨image 3⟩against them, because, lest I be tedious, I have not improved them by Syllogistical form and full confirmation, and they will put off the full answers already given them in the former Books to which I refer them, without a Reply: And they will pass by the strength of what they meddle with. 4. And when I am dead, they will patch up some confident answer to some of my Books (as vain as Mr. Johnson, alias Terret, hath done to one,) and will borrow some lies, from the writings of some against me that are of the same spirit with them, wherewith to reproach my Name, which shall be instead of an answer to my Books.
IT is for your Reading, and not for the Papists chiefly that I publish this short and hasty writing. For I may probably prognosticate of them, 1. That the lay men will not, must not read it; 2. That the Priests, will not read it with any impartiality, as Lovers of Truth; 3. That what they cannot answer they will silently dissemble, or if any meddle with it, they will either take some scrap and leave the rest; or they will spend paper in cavilling at my 40. Reasons ⟨image 3⟩