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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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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.
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 Doctrin 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.
III. The Belief of every particular Priest or Prophet after Moses, or every Pastor after Christ and his Apostles, was not of the same degree of necessity to Salvation, as the belief of the Law and Gospel itself. Therefore though all the Holy Scripture be true, the Law and the Gospel must be much differenced from the rest.
IV. The History of the Law and Gospel have full ascertaining historical Evidence; or else there is none such in the World. Therefore the Doctrine must be true.
IV. The History of the Law and Gospel have full ascertaining historical Evidence; or else there is none such in the World. Therefore the Doctrin must be true.