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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.
So many contradictions, absurdities, and impieties are to be by them believed with it, that I am sure no man that understandeth them, can possibly believe them all.
And all this must be done by Miracles, stupendous miracles, daily or common miracles, which every Priest can do at his pleasure, and never fail, sober or drunken, greater than raising a man from the dead; so ⟨p. 63⟩that every beastly, sordid, ignorant Priest, shall do more miracles by far, than ever Jesus Christ did in all his life on earth, as far as we know by the holy Records, (if he live as long). He that can believe all this, may next believe, that there is neither Earth under his feet, nor the Firmament over his head, nor Water, nor Air, nor any other Creature, and that he hath no being himself.
And all this must be done by Miracles, stupendious miracles, daily or common miracles, which every Priest can do at his pleasure, and never fail, sober or drunken, greater than raising a man from the dead; so ⟨p. 63⟩that every beastly, sordid, ignorant Priest, shall do more miracles by far, than ever Jesus Christ did in all his life on earth, as far as we know by the holy Records, (if he live as long). He that can believe all this, may next believe, that there is neither Earth under his feet, nor the Firmament over his head, nor Water, nor Air, nor any other Creature, and that he hath no being himself.
II. Reason: The Faith or Religion of the Papists, as described by themselves, is so far from Infallibility, as that it is utterly uncertain, unintelligible, and mere contradiction and confusion; and a changeable thing; so that no man knoweth whether he have it or not, and whether he have it all; But whoever hath it, he hath certainly a hodge-podge of truth and falsehood.