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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SIR,
I Was right glad, when I first heard that you had written, and put to Print, a Book of the Reasons of the Christian Religion; and I did immediately buy the Book, hoping that in the Reading and Perusing of it, I might have received satisfaction as to any doubt or scruple, and an answer satisfactory to all Objections, that in Reason may be raised against the Grounds of the said Christian Religion; because I did think you to be as able to say and write as much as any man in that thing, having as I thought studied it as much as any that I had heard of; but in the reading and perusing it, I contrary to my expectation found it to be short of giving me satisfaction.
For the greatest occasion of any doubt or scruple in any thing tending or relating to the Christian Religion that I at any time had or have, were from that variousness and contrariety, ⟨p. 2⟩if not contradictions, which are, or at least seem to be, in the writings of the Apostles and Evangelists and other Books received for Scripture.
But you in answer to that Objection, page 412. say, Nothing but ignorance maketh men think so; understand once the true meaning, and allow for the errors of Printers, Transcribers, and Translators; and there will no such thing be found.