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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.
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11. Another tradition hath been the published confessions of their Faith and R•l•g•on in those Apologies, which persecutions and calumnies have caused them to write.
12. And another is, all those published Confutations of the many heresies, which in every age have risen up; and all the controversies which the Churches have had with them, and among themselves.
13. And another is, all the Treatises, Sermons, and other instructing writings of the Pastors of those times.
14 And another way of tradition hath been by the testimony and sufferings of Confessors and Martyrs, who have endured either torments or death, in the defence and owning of this Religion: In all which ways of tradition, the doctrine and the matter were jointly attested by them. For the Resurrection of Christ (which is part of the matter of fact) was one of the Articles of their Creed, which they suffered for: And all of them received the holy Scriptures, which declare the Apostles miracles; and they received their faith, as delivered by those Apostles, with the confirmation of those miracles: So that when they professed to believe the doctrine, they especially professed to believe the history of the life and death of Christ, and of his Apostles: And the Religion which they suffered for, and daily professed, contained both: And the historical Books called the Gospels, were the chief part of the Scripture which they called, The Word of God, and the Records of the Christian Religion.