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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 5: The Minor proved, viz. That these Miracles are false.
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I know that Christ telleth his Apostles [Greater works than these shall ye do.] But 1. There are Greater works (such as the converting of greater numbers in the world) which are not Greater Miracles: 2. And what was promised •o the Apostles, as to Miracles, was not promised to every Priest in the world.
I appeal to the Consciences of sober Christians, whether it sound not as an arrogant if not blasphemous speech, to say that Christ and his Apostles did fewer and smaller miracles (proportionable to their time) than every Priest.
I appeal to the Consciences of sober Christians, whether it sound not as an arrogant if not blaspheamous speech, to say that Christ and his Apostles did fewer and smaller miracles (proportionable to their time) than every Priest.
And as to the Minor, it is soon proved in its parts.
1. As to the Greatness of the Miracles; those of Christ were exceeding Great: especially his Raising Lazarus, and his own Resurrection, his turning water into Wine, and his feeding thousands with a little food — But he that will examine Transubstantiation as afore-described, shall find it to have more that is contrary to nature, than all these, by far. The substance of the dead body of Christ or Lazarus did not vanish, but remained to be the organized Recipient matter of the re-entering soul. There were no Accidents without substances, or other such things as are mentioned before. The multiplying of food, could at the most be but a new Creation; But it was real food, and none of the contradictions or absurdities before recited. The turning of Water into Wine was likest this in the Papists opinion; but indeed little like it. For the matter of the