A26960:195
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
II. Quest. Whether the Notitiae Communes be not many more than this learned and noble writer doth enumerate, viz. First, That there is one only God at least supreme (whom he very well describeth by his attributes.) Secondly, That this God is to be worshipped, and prayed to, (Religion being ultima hominis differentia pag. 214). Thirdly, That the due conformity of our faculties (that is their holiness and rectitude) is the chief part of Gods worship; especially Gratitude, Fourthly, That all vices and crimes must be expiated by repentance. Fifthly, That after this life there ⟨p. 119⟩is another life of rewards and punishment.
II. Quest. Whether the Notitiae Communes be not many more than this learned and noble writer doth enumerate, viz. First, That there is one onely God at least supreme (whom he very well describeth by his attributes.) Secondly, That this God is to be worshipped, and prayed to, (Religion being ultima hominis differentia pag. 214). Thirdly, That the due conformity of our faculties (that is their holiness and rectitude) is the chief part of Gods worship; especially Gratitude, Fourthly, That all vices and crimes must be expiated by repentance. Fifthly, That after this life there ⟨p. 119⟩is another life of rewards and punishment.
Answ. All these are excellent concessions, as being not only Truths, but such Notitiae Communes without which a man is scarce a man, but unmanned. Except that the fourth doth erroneously assert the foredisproved sufficient satisfactoriness in our Repentance. And that this is not a Notitia Communis, I further thus manifest.
Answ. All these are excellent concessions, as being not onely Truths, but such Notitiae Communes without which a man is scarce a man, but unman'd. Except that the fourth doth erroneously assert the foredisproved sufficient satisfactoriness in our Repentance. And that this is not a Notitia Communis, I further thus manifest.