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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 1 › Chapter 3: What is the Religion of the Protestants.
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. This shall not serve your turn: For every Law must have its promulgation: And if it be not manifested to you that Scripture is Gods Law, and sufficient, it cannot be your Rule: I ask you therefore, Qu. 1. Is it the Scripture in the Original, or in the Translations, which you say is your Religion, Law or Rule?
R. I told you our Divine Rule consisteth of Words and Meaning. It is only the Originals which are our Rule or Religion as to the very words; that is, Only the Original words, were of that Divine Inspiration. But every Translation is so far Gods Word, in sense, as it expresseth truly the sense of the original words.
P. Qu. 2. I pray you what then is the Religion of all the unlearned Protestants, who know not a word of the Originals? They may see now that you have stripped them of all Divine Religion.
P. Qu. 2. I pray you what then is the Religion of all the unlearned Protestants, who know not a word of the Originals? They may see now that you have stript them of all Divine Religion.
R. Their Religion is the same objectively with that of the most learned, as delivered from God; but it is not equally learned and understood by them; Gods Word in the Original Tongues is given them as the Rule of Faith and Worship; and Teachers are appointed to help them to understand it. When these Teachers have Translated it to them, they have the same sense, though not the same words, for their Religion. And to know the Words is not so necessary to salvation, as to know the sense (or sentence) though by other words: For the words are but means to know the Sense; and the sense but a means to know the Things, (viz. God, Christ, Grace, Glory, &c.) And as they have the same God, Christ, Spirit, Grace, Glory, &c. to be the real objects of their Religion, so have they the same Doctrine and Law in sense which is in the Originals.