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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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5. Christ chose men of no great human Learning and Subtlety, but common, plain, unlearned men, that it might not be thought a deceit of Art.
5. Christ chose men of no great human Learning and Subtility, but common, plain, unlearned men, that it might not be thought a deceit of Art.
6. Yea, he did not make much more known to them before his Death, than the bare Matters of Fact which they da•ly saw, and that he was the Christ, and Moral Doctrine; his Death, Resurrection, Ascension, and Kingdom of Heaven they knew little of before: But experience and the sudden coming down of the Spirit suddenly taught them all the rest.
7. They taught not one another, but were every one personally taught of God.
8. And yet they all agreed in the same Doctrine, when they were dispersed over the World; and never differed in any one Article of Faith.