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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
Part 4 › Chapter 2: The Papists Answers to all this confuted.
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R. It is easy to cheat fools and children into a dream, with a sound of empty words: To talk of senses vailing to faith and such like Canting, and insignificant words, may serve turn with that sort of men. But sober men will tell you that sense is in exercise in order of Nature at least before Reason or faith, and that we are Men and Animals before we are Christians: And that the truth and certainty of faith, presupposeth the Truth and Certainty of sense. Tell me else, if sense be false, how you know that there is a Man, or Pope, or Priest in the World? that there is a Book or Voice, or any being? And what possibility then have you of Believing?
R. It is easie to cheat fools and children into a dream, with a sound of empty words: To talk of senses vailing to faith and such like Canting, and insignificant words, may serve turn with that sort of men. But sober men will tell you that sense is in exercise in order of Nature at least before Reason or faith, and that we are Men and Animals before we are Christians: And that the truth and certainty of faith, presupposeth the Truth and Certainty of sense. Tell me else, if sense be false, how you know that there is a Man, or Pope, or Priest in the World? that there is a Book or Voice, or any being? And what possibility then have you of Believing?
P. Gods Revelation is surer than our senses?
R. This is the old song over and over. Revelation without sense (to you and ordinary Christians at least) is a contradiction. How know you that God hath any revelations? If by preachers words, How know you that there is a preacher, or a word but by sense? If by books, How know you that there is a book, but by sense?