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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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so that I must take and trust them as they are, or cease to be a man.
P. IV. Christs Body and Blood are not sensible objects; and therefore sense is no proper judge whether they be present.
R. This is one of your gross kind of cheats, to change the question. We are not yet come to the question, Whether Christs Body and blood be here? And I grant you that sense is no judge of that, any more than whether an Angel be here. But the question is now only, Whether Bread or Wine or sensible substance be here? And of this we have no natural way but by sense to judge.
P. V. If God should say to you [Your senses are in this deceived; Here is no bread or wine or sensible substance] Would you not believe him?
R. 1. Again I tell you, it is a supposition not to be put: As if you should say, [If God should say, that part of the Gospel or word of God is false, would you not believe him?] 2. If I know that God telleth me that some disease or false medium, &c. deceive me or another in particular, I will believe him: But here it is supposed, 1. That I have assurance that it is God that tells me so; 2. And that I have no assurance that common sense saith the contrary. But if the sense of all the world about a well situate object of sense agree, I will not take that to be Gods word which contradicteth it, till I have some evidence which is better and stronger than the agreeing senses of all the world to prove it to be so. And what evidence must that be? I assure you somewhat greater than the authority of a beastly ignorant murdering Pope, and his factious Council.