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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
19. The Devil and all the Wicked of the World are the greatest Enemies to it.
20. The Holy Ghost hath still blest it, to work the same holy and heavenly Nature, and Life in all sincere and serious Believers.
Quest. This proveth infallibly the Tradition of the same Faith in the Essentials: But how prove you that the same Holy Scripture is delivered as uncorrupted?
Answ. All the Bible is not brought down so unchanged as are the Essentials of our Religion: When ⟨p. 271⟩there were no Bibles but what Scriveners wrote, no wonder if oversight left few Copies without some of their slips. There are hundred of various Readings in the New Testament; and of many no Man can be certain which is true: But none of them are such as make any difference in the Articles of our Faith, or Practice, nor on which any point of Doctrine or Fact dependeth.