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The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…
The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb. 11, 1, formerly preached before His Majesty, and published by his command, with another added for the fuller application : the second is instructions for confirming believers in the Christian faith : the third is directions how to live by faith, or how to exercise it upon all occasions / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1670
Part 2 › Chapter 7: The means of making known all this infallibly to us.
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.
4. The holy Scriptures or Records of this Religion, containing integrally all the doctrine, and all the necessary matter ⟨p. 129⟩of fact, is the most complete way of tradition: And it will appear to you in what further shall be said, that we have infallible proof, that these Scriptures are the same, which the first Churches did receive; what ever inconsiderable errors may be crept into any Copies, by the unavoidable oversight of the Scribes.
4. The holy Scriptures or Records of this Religion, containing integrally all the doctrine, and all the necessary matter ⟨p. 129⟩of fact, is the most compleat way of tradition: And it will appear to you in what further shall be said, that we have infallible proof, that these Scriptures are the same, which the first Churches did receive; what ever inconsiderable errours may be crept into any Copies, by the unavoidable oversight of the Scribes.
5. The constant use of the sacred Assemblies, hath been another means of sure tradition: For we have infallible proof of the successive continuation of such Assemblies; and that their use was still, the solemn profession of the Christian Faith, and worshipping God according to it.
6. And the constant use of Reading the Scriptures in those Assemblies, is another full historical tradition: For that which is constantly and publicly read, as the doctrine of their Religion, cannot be changed, without the notice of all the Church, and without an impossible combination of all the Churches in the world.