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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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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⟩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.
Eighthly, And we do confess our selves, that the Apostles had not the infallible Spirit given them for every use or thing that they had to do; but for those matters about which they had special need of it and use for it, to fulfil their office. The Spirit was not so necessary for them to discern those things by, which the common sense and understanding of a man, was sufficient to discern. They could taste sweet from bitter, feel heat from cold, discern light from darkness, without an Infallible extraordinary Spirit. And so being eye and ear witnesses, of what Christ did and said, of his words, his miracles, his resurrection, his ascension, they might infallibly know them by ordinary means. And so a good Christian