A26892:1730
A Christian Directory
A Christian directory, or, A sum of practical theology and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortify every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.A Christian directory, or, A summ of practical theologie and cases of conscience directing Christians how to use their knowledge and faith, how to improve all helps and means, and to perform all duties, how to overcome temptations, and to escape or mortifie every sin : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1673
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Quest. BY what Reason, evidence or obligation were the Jews bound to believe the Prophets? Seeing Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, &c. wrought no miracles, and there were false Prophets in their days; How then could any man know that indeed they were sent of God, when they nakedly affirmed it?
Quest. BY what Reason, evidence or obligation were the Iews bound to believe the Prophets? Seing Isaiah, Jeremy, Ezekiel, &c. wrought no miracles, and there were false Prophets in their daies; How then c•uld any man know that indeed they were sent of God, when they nakedly affirmed it?
Answ. I mention this objection or case, because in my book of the Reas. of Christian Religion (to which for all the rest I refer the Reader) it is forgotten: And because it is one of the hardest questions about our faith.
1. Those that think that every book of Scripture doth now prove it self to be Divine prop•ia luce, by its own matter, stile and other properties, will accordingly say, that by Hearing the Prophets then, as well as by Reading them now, this intrinsic satisfactory evidence was discernible. All that I can say of this is, that there are such Characters in the Prophecies as are a help to faith, as making it the more easily credible that they are of God, but not such as I could have been ascertained by (especially as delivered by parcels then,) if there had been no more.
1. Those that think that every book of Scripture doth now prove it self to be Divine prop•ia luce, by its own matter, stile and other properties, will accordingly say, that by Hearing the Prophets then, as well as by Reading them now, this intrinsick satisfactory evidence was discnable. All that I can say of this is, that there are such Characters in the Prophecies as are a help to faith, as making it the more easily credible that they are of God, but not such as I could have been ascertained by (especially as delivered by parcels then,) if there had been no more.