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A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…
A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and concord of Christians and are delivered in a book called The cure of church-divisions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
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.
You add [We wonder that any Protestant should be found, though but by the equalling of Church history to Scripture, as if the uncertain tradition of the one, were to be as much accounted of and followed as the Divine and infallible Revelation of the other.]
You adde [We wonder that any Protestant should be found, though but by the equalling of Church history to Scripture, as if the uncertain tradition of the one, were to be as much accounted of and followed as the Divine and infallible Revelation of the other.]
Answ. 1. Because this wonder plainly containeth an affirmation that I do so, I must ⟨p. 35⟩say that it is your tenth untruth: Prove such1 a word if you are able.
- 110 Untruth.
2. It is not true that this History is uncertain (though not to be equalled with Scripture.) Is the Case of a vast Empire of Ethiopia (as big yet after the decay saith Brierwood, as Germany, Italy, France and Spain) uncertain, when the World knoweth that they have not had so much as Converse with the Pope, and at Oviedo's attempt did not know who he was? And so of Persia, India, &c.
2. It is not true that this Historie is uncertain (though not to be equalled with Scripture.) Is the Case of a vast Empire of Aethiopia (as big yet after the decay saith Brierwood, as Germany, Italy, France and Spain) uncertain, when the World knoweth that they have not had so much as Converse with the Pope, and at Oviedos attempt did not know who he was? And so of Persia, India, &c.