Richard Baxter's dying thoughts upon Phil. I, 23 written for his own life and…

16. When wrangling Heretics quarrelled with the Apostles, and would draw away Disciples to themselves by disparaging them they still appealed to the Miracles wrought by these Disciples themselves, or in their sight; as Gal. 3. 1, 2, 3, 5. And as Christ, when the Jews said he did all by Beelzebub, when he cast out devils, asked them [By whom do your Children cast them out?] Which had it been false, would have turned all the People from them.

16. When wrangling Hereticks quarrelled with the Apostles, and would draw away Disciples to themselves by disparaging them they still appealed to the Miracles wrought by these Disciples themselves, or in their sight; as Gal. 3. 1, 2, 3, 5. And as Christ, when the Jews said he did all by Beelzebub, when he cast out devils, askt them [By whom do your Children cast them out?] Which had it been false, would have turned all the People from them.

17. Their adversaries were so far from writing any Confutation of their Testimony, that they confessed the ⟨p. 265⟩Miracles, and had no shift but either to blaspheme the Holy Ghost, and say that they were done by the Devil; or else by persecution and violence to oppress them. As if the Devil were Master of the World, and could remedilessly deceive it against God's will, or God himself would send or suffer a full course of Miracles remedilessly to deceive the World, which is to make God like the Devil: Or as if the Devil were so good as by Miracles to promote so holy and amiable and just a Doctrine as that of Christianity, to make men wise, and good, and just, and kill their sin. So that this blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, makes Satan to be God, or God to be Satan.

17. Their adversaries were so far from writing any Confutation of their Testimony, that they confest the ⟨p. 265⟩