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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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To begin at the last. First, If Divine Testimony be not a certain proof of Truth, then there is no possible proof in the world. For there is no Veracity in any Creature, but derivative from God: And then it must be either because a Lie is as perfect and ⟨p. 29⟩Good as Truth (which humanity, reason, and all the world contradicteth, and humane society abhorreth, there being no savages so barbarous as to think so) or because God is imperfect, either in wisdom to know what is True and sit, or in Goodness to choose it, or in Power to use it: That is, that God is not God, or that there is no God (and consequently no Being) for an Imperfect God, an unwise, an ill, an impotent Being, is no God. And verily all our Controversies with the Infidel and the Impious, and the Persecutor, must finally come to this, Whether there be a God.
To begin at the last. First, If Divine Testimony be not a certain proof of Truth, then there is no possible proof in the world. For there is no Veracity in any Creature, but derivative from God: And then it must be either because a Lie is as perfect and ⟨p. 29⟩Good as Truth (which humanity, reason, and all the world contradicteth, and humane society abhorreth, there being no savages so barbarous as to think so) or because God is imperfect, either in wisdome to know what is True and sit, or in Goodness to choose it, or in Power to use it: That is, that God is not God, or that there is no God (and consequently no Being) for an Imperfect God, an unwise, an ill, an impotent Being, is no God. And verily all our Controversies with the Infidel and the Impious, and the Persecuter, must finally come to this, Whethen there be a God.
II. And that these were really Divine Attestations, I have fully proved in the Treatise. First, They are Divine Effects, and the Divine Vestigia or Image. Secondly, And such as none can do but God. None else can give that full Antecedent Testimony of Prophecy: None else could have done what Christ did; in his Life, Death, Resurrection and Ascension: None could heal all Diseases, work all Miracles, raise the Dead with a word: None else could do what the Apostles