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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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SIR,
Two sorts of persons use to trouble me and others, with their Objections against the Christian Religion. First, Some Papists, who profess to believe it, but in design do act the part of Infidels, that they may loose men from all Religion, in hope to bring them over to theirs, when they have taken them off all other. For he that can make another man believe that he was hitherto totally misled is likest to become the Master of his Faith: For men are apt to think that none can so easily and certainly show them the truth, as he that hath showed them their error. And when men once think that according to the Grounds of the Reformed Churches, they can have no certainty of Faith, they will the easilier be brought to the way of those men, who promise them that certainty which they make them believe that others want.
TWo sorts of persons use to trouble me and others, with their Objections against the Christian Religion. First, Some Papists, who profess to believe it, but in designe do act the part of Infidels, that they may loose men from all Religion, in hope to bring them over to theirs, when they have taken them off all other. For he that can make another man believe that he was hitherto totally misled is likest to become the Master of his Faith: For men are apt to think that none can so easily and certainly shew them the truth, as he that hath shewed them their error. And when men once think that according to the Grounds of the Reformed Churches, they can have no certainty of Faith, they will the easilier be brought to the way of those men, who promise them that certainty which they make them believe that others want.
Secondly, The other sort are Infidels, who of late are grown numerous and audacious, and look so big and speak so loud, as to acquaint us that it is not they that are silenced (in their speaking place) nor driven five miles from every City and Corporation.