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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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Prop. 1. If it could not by us be proved that every word of the Scriptures is true, nor the Pen men infallible or indefectible in every particle, yet might we have a certainty of the Christian Religion.
The reason is, Because every particle in the Scripture, is not an essential part of the Christian Religion, (no nor any Integral part, if you take the Christian Religion strictly, for the Doctrine of necessary Belief, Desire and Practice:) And that part which is indeed the essence (yea or Integrity) of Christianity, may be certainly proved and believed, without our being able to prove the certainty or truth of all the rest which is in the Scriptures.
The Holy Scriptures contain all our Religion, and somewhat more; that is, the Accidents and appurtenances of it. As the body of a man, besides the parts ⟨p. 13⟩Essential and Integral hath its Accidents; such as are the Hair and the Colour (and some Humours) which are for Beauty and other uses, though not Parts. So far are the Papists from being in the right, who think that the Christian Religion is not all (but part) contained in the Scriptures, that there is more than all that is necessary to salvation, even the appurtenances which have an aptitude to the adorning and promoting of the rest.