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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.
If he can do it only on the Altar, then want of an Altar would frustrate the effect (which they hold not). But if he can do it without an Altar he may do it in the Shop and Cellar.
If he can do it only on the bread and wine present, how near must it be? Then the words will work at so many yards distance, and not at so many. Or if he cannot do it out of sight, a blind Priest cannot do it. But if he can do it on that which is absent, we may fear lest in an anger he may take away all the bread and wine in the Land; at least in a frolic to try his power.
If he can do it only on the bread and wine present, how near must it be? Then the words will work at so many yards distance, and not at so many. Or if he cannot do it out of sight, a blind Priest cannot do it. But if he can do it on that which is absent, we may fear lest in an anger he may take away all the bread and wine in the Land; at least in a frolick to try his power.
XVI. And it is some aggravation of these manifold Miracles that a Degraded Priest can do them:1 Because they follow the indelible Character: And so he that hath once made a Miracle-worker, cannot take away his power again, nor his sin lose his power. Is not this a marvellous power of Miracles, which becometh like a nature to them, as the power of speaking is?
XVI. And it is some aggravaion of these manifold Miracles that a Degraded Priest can do them:1 Because they follow the indelible Character: And so he that hath once made a Miracle-worker, cannot take away his power again, nor his sin lose his power. Is not this a marvellous power of Miracles, which becometh like a nature to them, as the power of speaking is?