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More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second…
More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second appendix to the Reasons of the Christian religion being I. an answer to a letter from an unknown person charging the Holy Scriptures with contradictions, II. some animadversions on a tractate De Veritate, written by ... Edward Herbert, Baron of Cherbury ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1672
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Ninthly, And also we hold that the Jews were not the whole of Gods Kingdom or Church of Redeemed ones in the world (as I have fully proved elsewhere,) But that as the Govenant was made with all mankind, so amongst them God-had other Servants besides the Jews; Though it was they that had the extraordinary benediction of being his peculiar sacred People. Tenthly, And we hold that as the Jews had by Promises, Prophesies and Types, more means to know God and the Messiah to come than other Nations, so they were answerably obliged to more knowledge and faith than other Nations were, that had not, nor could have, their means.
Ninethly, And also we hold that the Jews were not the whole of Gods Kingdome or Church of Redeemed ones in the world (as I have fully proved elsewhere,) But that as the Govenant was made with all mankind, so amongst them God-had other Servants besides the Jews; Though it was they that had the extraordinary benediction of being his peculiar sacred People. Tenthly, And we hold that as the Jews had by Promises, Prophesies and Types, more means to know God and the Messiah to come than other Nations, so they were answerably obliged to more knowledge and faith than other Nations were, that had not, nor could have, their means.
If then all the world be under the first Covenant of Grace, and if you confess this to proceed from the wisdom and goodness of God, and that men are bound so to believe, and if Christ since his Incarnation hath diminished none of the mercies of God to the world, but rather greatly increased them; and so where the Gospel is ⟨p. 96⟩not preached, nor cannot be had, they that refuse it not, are in no worse case than they were before, how can you say that they are Remediless, if Christ be the ransom and remedy?
If then all the world be under the first Covenant of Grace, and if you confess this to proceed from the wisdome and goodness of God, and that men are bound so to believe, and if Christ since his Incarnation hath diminished none of the mercies of God to the world, but rather greatly increased them; and so where the Gospel is