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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.
§. 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⟩that daily they are certainly false. God made Sense: God made the Intellect: God made the Medium, and God made the object. In the Lords Supper all the sound senses of all men living Christians and Heathens, Papists and Protestants perceive Bread and Wine, by seeing, smelling, touching and tasting. Yet the Papists say, and their Priests swear that there is no Bread and Wine, and that God by another Revelation hath certified us that this Revelation to sense and the Intellect by sense is false: He that will not swear that there is no Bread shall be no Priest: He that will not renounce this Divine Revelation in Nature, and all his senses, and all mens senses, is a Heretic to be burnt and damned. All Temporal Lords that will suffer such as thus renounce not sense and sensible Revelation, are to be excommunicate, and deprived of their dominions, and their subjects absolved from their oaths of allegiance. All this is in the Council of Lateran sub Innoc. 3. Can. 1. 3. And the Trent Oath and Council. Is this now a Divine Revelation or not? If not, then they that heard Christ speak and saw his Miracles, and saw him after his Resurrection, had none. For their senses might be all deceived if all mens now may.
§. 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⟩that daily they are certainly false. God made Sense: God made the Intellect: God made the Medium, and God made the object. In the Lords Supper all the sound senses of all men living Christians and Heathens, Papists and Protestants perceive Bread and Wine, by seeing, smelling, touching and tasting. Yet the Papists say, and their Priests swear that there is no Bread and Wine, and that God by another Revelation hath certified us that this Revelation to sense and the Intellect by sense is false: He that will not swear that there is no Bread shall be no Priest: He that will not renounce this Divine Revelation in Nature, and all his senses, and all mens senses, is a Heretick to be burnt and damned. All Temporal Lords that will suffer such as thus renounce not sense and sensible Revelation, are to be excommunicate, and deprived of their dominions, and their subjects absolved from their oaths of allegiance. All this is in the Council of Lateran sub Innoc. 3. Can. 1. 3. And the Trent Oath and Council. Is this now a Divine Revelation or not? If not, then they that heard Christ speak and saw his Miracles, and saw him after his Resurrection, had none. For their senses might be all deceived if all mens now may.