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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.
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.
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.
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 scituate 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.
P. VI. Cartesius giveth you an instance of deception of sight: We think a square Tower of a Steeple to b round till we come near it: And the water seemeth to us to move when it is the boat.