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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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Sixthly, Moreover, we confess that it is possible for a good Christian to doubt whether those that were but Evangelists (as Mark and Luke) had the same promise of the Spirits infallible assistance with the Apostles; seeing we find not that promise so expressly any where made to them. And thereupon he may possibly think that some errors may consist with their measure of the Spirit, as it did with many Christians who had the same Spirit.
Sixthly, Moreover, we confess that it is possible for a good Christian to doubt whether those that were but Evangelists (as Marke and Luke) had the same promise of the Spirits infallible assistance with the Apostles; seeing we find not that promise so expresly any where made to them. And thereupon he may possibly think that some errors may consist with their measure of the Spirit, as it did with many Christians who had the same Spirit.
Seventhly, And we do not believe that the extraordinary operations of the Spirit were always equally in the Apostles themselves; we suppose the Prophets could not always Prophesy, nor those that spake with tongues, use that gift at their own pleasure, nor yet those that did miracles, healed the ⟨p. 18⟩sick, or raised the dead: But that the Spirit wrought, as in various sorts and measures in several persons, (1 Cor. 12.) so also at various times, and in various measures in the same person. Whereupon it is possible for a good Christian to doubt, whether every word in Scripture was written then, when the writer had the gift of infallibility and indefectibility.
Seventhly, And we do not believe that the extraordinary operations of the Spirit were alwaies equally in the Apostles themselves; we suppose the Prophets could not alwaies Prophesie, nor those that spake with tongues, use that gift at their own pleasure, nor yet those that did miracles, healed the ⟨p. 18⟩