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Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…
Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and the latter times of his corporal pains and weakness.
London: printed by Tho. Snowden for B. Simmons, 1683
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Answ. 1. We may be sure that the Spectators were not deceived. II. And that they did not deceive them to whom they reported it. III. And that we are not deceived by any miscarriage in the historical Tradition to us.
§ 4. I. It was not possible that men that were not mad, that had Eyes and Ears, could for three Years and a half believe that they saw the Lame, the Blind, the Deaf, and all Diseases healed, the Dead raised, Thousands miraculously fed, &c. and this among crowds of People that still followed Christ, if the things had not been true: One Man's Senses may be deceived at some one instance, by some deceitful accident: But that the Eyes and Ears of Multitudes should be so oft deceived many years in the open Light, is as much as to say, No Man knoweth any thing that he seeth and heareth.
§ 4. I. It was not possible that men that were not mad, that had Eyes and Ears, could for three Years and a half believe that they saw the Lame, the Blind, the Deaf, and all Diseases healed, the Dead raised, Thousands miraculously fed, &c. and this among crouds of People that still followed Christ, if the things had not been true: One Man's Senses may be deceived at some one instance, by some deceitful accident: But that the Eyes and Ears of Multitudes should be so oft deceived many years in the open Light, is as much as to say, No Man knoweth any thing that he seeth and heareth.
§ 5. II. That the Disciples who received the Apostles and Evangelists report of Christ were not deceived by the Reporters, is most evident.