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Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference…
Full and easy satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholic Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.Full and easie satisfaction which is the true and safe religion in a conference between D. a doubter, P. a papist, and R. a reformed Catholick Christian : in four parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nev. Simmons, 1674
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.
The eighth Principle. That Believing or Assenting is Intellection of the Truth of something revealed, and therefore must have Intelligible Evidence of Truth in the thing believed.
R. I know that Assiance or Trust as it is the act of the Will, reposing it self quietly on the Believed fidelity of God, is not Intellection. But the Assenting act is an Intellection or an Act of Knowledge of a Verity; not as Science is narrowly confined to principles, but as Knowledge is taken in genere for notitia. So to believe is no other than to know that this is true, because God saith it. Joh. 6.69. We believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, &c. Joh. 3.2. We know that thou art a Teacher come from God, for no man could do such works, &c. Joh. 21.24. We know that his testimony is true— See Rom. 7.14. & 8.28. 2 Cor. 5.1. We know that if this earthly house, &c. 1 Tim. 1.8. 1 Joh. 3.2. Joh. 8.28, 32.