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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
Part 4 › Chapter 2: The Papists Answers to all this confuted.
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R. 1. Where doth God say it? 2. How shall I be sure that he saith it? If you say, that it is written in Scripture; besides that there is no such word; How shall I know that all mens senses are not deceived in thinking that there is a Scripture, or such a word in it? If you say that the Council saith it, How shall I know that there is a man or ever was a Council, or a Book in the world? The certainty of Conclusions presupposeth the certainty of premises and principles: And the certainty of faith and Reasoning, presupposeth the certainty of sense: And if you deny this, you deny all, and in vain plead for the rest.
P. I must believe my senses, where I have no reason to disbelieve them. But when God contradicteth them, I have reason to disbelieve them.
R. 1. You vainly suppose without proof that God contradicteth them. So you may say, I may or must believe the Scripture or an Apostle, Prophet or Miracle, except God contradict them. But if God contradict them, he contradicteth his own word or revelation: For we have no other from him, but by man: And if he ⟨p. 90⟩contradict himself, or his own word, how can I believe him, or know which of his words it is that's true, when one is false? so here: His Natural Revelation is his first, nearest, and most satisfactory revelation: And if that be said to be false by his supernatural revelation, which shall I believe, and why?
R. 1. You vainly suppose without proof that God contradicteth them. So you may say, I may or must believe the Scripture or an Apostle, Prophet or Miracle, except God contradict them. But if God contradict them, he contradicteth his own word or revelation: For we have no other from him, but by man: And if he ⟨p. 90⟩