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The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy…
The divine appointment of the Lords day proved as a separated day for holy worship, especially in the church assemblies, and consequently the cessation of the seventh day Sabbath : written for the satisfaction of some religious persons who are lately drawn into error or doubting in both these points / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
The Divine Appointment of the LORDS DAY, proved, as a separated Day… › Chapter 5
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Prop. 3. Scripture History is not the only certain History of the things of the Ages in which it was written, or of former Ages; much less the only credible History of them.
We may know by other History certainly, that there were such persons as Cyrus, Alexander, &c. That the Macedonians had a large extended Empire; that the Romans after by many Victories obtained a spacious Empire; that there were such persons as Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, &c.
Prop. 4. Scripture History is not the only means appointed by God, to help us to the knowledge of Ecclesiastical matters of fact, transacted in Scripture times.
1. For if Humane History be certain or credible in other cases, it is certain or credible in these. There being no reason why these things, or much of them, should not be as capable of a certain delivery to us by humane History as other matters. As that there were Christians in those times, may be known by what Tacitus, Suetonius, &c. say. And the ancient Writers oft appeal in many cases to the Heathens own History. And no man pretendeth as to the Civil matters mentioned in the Scriptures, that no other History of the same is credible or certain. As of the Government