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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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2. If God will send his Son from Heaven to ascertain us, and we will believe no more than we see our selves, then Christ must dwell on Earth to the end of the World, & he must be in all places of the Earth at once that all may see, and he must die and rise again before all men in all Ages: And how mad an expectation is this?
3. Or if all that deliver us the History must work Miracles before our Eyes, or else we will not believe them, it is still most absurd. Will you not believe that the Laws of the Land are genuine, or that ever there were such Kings as made them unless he that tells it you work Miracles? Shall not Children believe their Parents, or Scholars their Tutors, unless they work Miracles.
3. Or if all that deliver us the History must work Miracles before our Eyes, or else we will not believe them, it is still most absurd. Will you not believe that the Laws of the Land are genuine, or that ever there were such Kings as made them unless he that tells it you work Miracles? Shall not Children believe their Parents, or Schollars their Tutors, unless they work Miracles.
3. I must premise that there is three sorts of Tradition, I. Such as depends on the common Wit and Honesty of Mankind: And this is very much to be suspected, wickedness, folly and lying being grown so common in the World.