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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 11: The Conclusion of the first Book: The Causes of Popery.
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R. Do we need thus to ramble round about, as if we would doubt of the thing till we know the Causes of it? when we see and they all confess that they deny all our senses? Will you not believe that there is a Sun, till you know what it is made of? Or whether the Sea ebb and flow, till you know the Causes of it? I pray you tell me, Q. 1. Do you think that the Mahometan's is not a very foolish Religion, and their foundation (the pretended Mission of their Prophet) without any show of truth; and his Alcoran (if ever you read it) a heap of Non-sense and Confusion?
R. Do we need thus to ramble round about, as if we would doubt of the thing till we know the Causes of it? when we see and they all confess that they deny all our senses? Will you not believe that there is a Sun, till you know what it is made of? Or whether the Sea ebb and flow, till you know the Causes of it? I pray you tell me, Q. 1. Do you think that the Mahometan's is not a very foolish Religion, and their foundation (the pretended Mission of their Prophet) without any shew of truth; and his Alcoran (if ever you read it) a heap of Non-sense and Confusion?
D. Yes: I think it deserveth no better thoughts.
R. And do you not know that (though it arose not till about six hundred years after Christ) much more of the world is Mahometan than Christian? And are there not far Greater Emperors and Princes Mahometans than any that are Christians? And have not all these souls to save or lose? And do they not all venture their souls upon that Religion? Why then is not your argument here as good for Mohammedanism as for Popery?
R. And do you not know that (though it arose not till about six hundred years after Christ) much more of the world is Mahometan than Christian? And are there not far Greater Emperours and Princes Mahometans than any that are Christians? And have not all these souls to save or lose? And do they not all venture their souls upon that Religion? Why then is not your argument here as good for Mahometanism as for Popery?