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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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§ 41. But how are we sure that these three men tell us nothing but the Truth? Ans. This is oft answered elsewhere. The Spirit which they spake and work'• by, was Christ's Witness and theirs. They healed the Sick, raised the Dead, spake various Languages which they never learnt; and Preached, and Recorded that Holy Doctrine committed to them by Christ, which itself ⟨p. 351⟩contained the evidence of its Divinity and of their Truth: And Christ then and to this Day hath owned it by the sanctifying Efficacy of the same Spirit, upon Millions of Souls.
§ 41. But how are we sure that these three men tell us nothing but the Truth? Ans. This is oft answered elsewhere. The Spirit which they spake and work'• by, was Christ's Witness and theirs. They healed the Sick, raised the Dead, spake various Languages which they never learnt; and Preached, and Recorded that Holy Doctrin committed to them by Christ, which itself ⟨p. 351⟩contained the evidence of its Divinity and of their Truth: And Christ then and to this Day hath owned it by the sanctifying Efficacy of the same Spirit, upon Millions of Souls.
How Holy a Doctrine doth Peter himself deliver as confirmed by this Apparition? 2 Pet. 1. 16, 17, 18. We have not followed cunningly devised Fables, when we made known to you the Power and Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were Eye Witnesses of his Majesty: For he received from God the Father, Honour and Glory, when there came such a Voice to him from the excellent Glory, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased: And this Voice which came from Heaven we heard when we were with him in the Holy Mount. The words [In whom I am well pleased] are only here and in Matthew: Mark and Luke omitting them, tell us that the Evangelists undertook not to recite all that was said and done, but each one so much as seemed necessary for him to say.