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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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You know who were your Parents, and when and where you were Born, &c. by such Tradition in a lower Degree. This dependeth not on pretended Authority, nor on mere honesty; but on natural necessity.
You know who were your Parents, and when and where you were Born, &c. by such Tradition in a lower Degree. This dependeth not on pretended Authority, nor on meer honesty; but on natural necessity.
Having premised this, I come to prove that we have such Tradition of Physical infallible evidence, that the Faith of the present Church in the Essentials is the same which the first Churches received infallibly from the Apostles.
1. The World knoweth that ever since Christ's Ascension all that believed in him, were Baptized (as all Abraham's Covenanting seed were Circumcised:) And what is Baptism, but a Profession of Belief in Jesus Christ as dead, risen and glorified; and a devoting our selves in Covenant to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost? All that ever were Christians by solemn Vow profest this same Faith: And this is such a Tradition of Christianity as humane Generation down from Adam is of the same humanity in the World.