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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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Appendix › The Reasons and Helps of my Belief and Hope of this Perfection.
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V. The Gospel of Christ hath brought Life and Immortality into a clearer Light than that of Nature. ⟨p. 291⟩And it must be by believing in Christ that we must have our full satisfaction. O what hath God done in the Wonders of Redemption to make us sure? And against the doubts that are apt to rise from some hard particular Text of Scripture, it must be considered, I. That Christ and his Apostles did put the ascertaining Seal of the many uncontrolled Miracles to the Gospel Doctrine, primarily; which Doctrine, 1. Was delivered and sealed Eight years before any of the New Testament was written, and almost Seventy before the last. 2. And Christ did not speak in the Language that the Gospel is written to us; so that being but a Translation as to his own Words, the Matter is the thing first sealed.
V. The Gospel of Christ hath brought Life and Immortality into a clearer Light than that of Nature. ⟨p. 291⟩And it must be by believing in Christ that we must have our full satisfaction. O what hath God done in the Wonders of Redemption to make us sure? And against the doubts that are apt to rise from some hard particular Text of Scripture, it must be considered, I. That Christ and his Apostles did put the ascertaining Seal of the many uncontrolled Miracles to the Gospel Doctrin, primarily; which Doctrin, 1. Was delivered and sealed Eight years before any of the New Testament was written, and almost Seventy before the last. 2. And Christ did not speak in the Language that the Gospel is written to us; so that being but a Translation as to his own Words, the Matter is the thing first sealed.
II. And that it was the two Legislator-Mediators, Moses and Christ, who came with the great stream of uncontrolled Miracles; It being necessary that men should have full proof that a Law or Doctrine is of God, before they believe it: But the Priests and Prophets after Moses, and the Preachers and Pastors of the Christian Church, who were not Commissioned to bring men any New Laws or Gospel, but to proclaim and teach that which they received, needed no such New Testimony of Miracles.