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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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Tenthly, And this being so necessary and so great a mercy to mankind, I wonder that you put it not among your common notices, that God being perfect in love and wisdom, and having made man purposely to be Religious, here, and happy hereafter, will certainly provide for his Religion and Happiness, so necessary and so excellent a means as Revelation is, God being the Father and Lover of light and of Souls, and the Devil being the Prince and Friend of darkness; Consider whether ⟨p. 148⟩you may not strongly infer from the very nature of God, and the nature and necessity of man, and the other communications of Gods mercies to the world, that he will certainly give them this great mercy also.
Eleventhly, It is certain that God hath ways of communicating light to mans understanding immediately and not only by extrinsic sensible objects. The Father of Spirits who communicateth so much to the corporeal world, is not further from Souls, nor more out of love with them; But (if there be any difference) may rather be thought to hold a nearer more immediate communion with them than with Bodies, and to be himself to the mind, what the Sun is to the Eye, and more.
Eleventhly, It is certain that God hath ways of communicating light to mans understanding immediately and not only by extrinsick sensible objects. The Father of Spirits who communicateth so much to the corporeal world, is not further from Souls, nor more out of love with them; But (if there be any difference) may rather be thought to hold a neerer more immediate communion with them than with Bodies, and to be himself to the mind, what the Sun is to the Eye, and more.
Twelfthly, It is certain that God can give the standers by that have no Revelation immediately themselves a fully satisfactory attestation or proof, of the truth of another mans Revelations. He that denieth this, maketh God to be impotent.