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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.
CHAP. V.
Quest. II. Whether it be true that the Papists grant us, that all Divine Revelations are true?
§. 1. Answ. YES, if you will first take their bare word what are Divine Revelations, 2. And will take in this word [in the sense that God intends them] 3. And will allow them to speak contradictions. For thus, 1. They can tell you when they have a mind, that Gods plainest Revelations, are none of his Revelations. 2. And that whatever Evidence of truth or sense there is in the signs revealing, God intendeth something contrary: 3. And that that is his revelation which is contrary to his Revelation.
§. 2. For instance: The first fundamental Revelation of God to man, is unto our senses of things sensible, and thereby Intelligible to our understandings: Now we cannot get the Papists assent that these Divine Revelations are certainly true: yea, they say ⟨p. 26⟩