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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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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.
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 denyeth this, maketh God to be impotent.
Thirteenthly, It is certain that the Attestation which I described in the Reasons of Christian Religion was such (supposing that such were given, viz. In the Antecedent Testimony of fulfilled Prophecy, the Constitutive Testimony of Gods Spirit apparent in the effects on Christ; person and on his Gospel, And the Concomitant Testimony of all his Miracles and Resurrection and Ascension. And the subsequent Testimony of the Spirit, on the Apostles, their Miracles and doctrine, and on the souls of all serious Christians to the worlds end) These are things (set all together) First, Which none but God could do. Secondly, And which God would not do to deceive the world; Thirdly, Yea, which God would not permit to be done to deceive them in so high a matter; Because he is the Omnipotent, Omniscient, Gracious Governor of the world; And if these Testimonies were not of God, it were impossible to know any Testimony to be of God; And seeing w have no surer, it would