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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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XI. Quest. Whether the common custom of sacrificing throughout the world in all generations, were not their actual Confession that the sinner deserved death, and that Gods justice required punishment of satisfaction? and proceeded not from Divine Revelation in the beginning, when God had new made the Covenant of Grace? and so was delivered down by Tradition? For my part it cannot come into my understanding, why else men should think that God is pleased or appeased by the Creatures death? or how this should become so common throughout the world. And the two exceptions confirm this to be truth: First, Some Savages in America use no sacrifices: But they are such as know not God, or so Savage as to have lost all ancient Tradition.
XI. Quest. Whether the common custome of sacrificing throughout the world in all generations, were not their actual Confession that the sinner deserved death, and that Gods justice required punishment of satisfaction? and proceeded not from Divine Revelation in the beginning, when God had new made the Covenant of Grace? and so was delivered down by Tradition? For my part it cannot come into my understanding, why else men should think that God is pleased or appeased by the Creatures death? or how this should become so common throughout the world. And the two exceptions confirm this to be truth: First, Some Savages in America use no sacrifices: But they are such as know not God, or so Savage as to have lost all antient Tradition.
Secondly, All the Mahometans and Christians use no bloody sacrifice. But that is because, First, Christians believe that Sacrifices were but types of Christ and that he put an end to them by his perfect Sacrifice. 2dly, And Mahometans received it from Christ, being but Christians degenerate first into Arians,