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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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But the miracles of Transubstantiation are known to no unbeliever; nor to any one in the world by any sense; and have no such End, but a contrary effect.
The Apostles who were to convert the world, and next Christ, to do the greatest good, were therefore to do the greatest miracles: And it was their argument for Christ, Joh. 7.31. When Christ cometh will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done? Yet now every ignorant Priest pretendeth to far more, who doth but tempt Infidels to deride Christianity by the pretence; as we do Mohammedanism, for Mahomets sport pretended with the Moon, and other such delirations.
The Apostles who were to convert the world, and next Christ, to do the greatest good, were therefore to do the greatest miracles: And it was their argument for Christ, Joh. 7.31. When Christ cometh will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done? Yet now every ignorant Priest pretendeth to far more, who doth but tempt Infidels to deride Christianity by the pretence; as we do Mahometanism, for Mahomets sport pretended with the Moon, and other such delirations.
V. God is not to be said to work Miracles and cross the established course of nature without proof. But these pretended Miracles have no proof — No man living perceiveth them by sense. And that God telleth us of no such things by supernatural Revelation, shall be further showed anon: In the mean time, it may satisfy ⟨p. 115⟩us, that they bring us no proof, but their own affirmation, which they require us to believe.