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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Seventh accused Point.
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.
That the Church can Err, and hath Errors.
Ans. This is truly and honestly recited: All Protestants hold it, and marvel that all the Devils in Hell can so befool any as to deny it.
1. No Body can tell what it is that they call the Church, till they tell us: But what ever it is, except confirmed Angels and Souls in Heaven, if they cannot Err, God and our Saviour, and the Apostles have Erred. For they tell us that, [we know but in part,] and if any Man say that he hath no Sin, he is a Liar, 1 Joh. 1. 1 Cor. 13.12. And in many things we offend all, Jam. 2.2. Psal. 19.12. Who can understand his Errors, cleanse thou me from secret faults. It was the Church of which God complaineth, that they alway Err in their Hearts, and have not known God's ways, Psal. 95.10. Heb. 3.10. unless Caleb and Joshua were all the Church, Isa. 53.6. All we like Sheep have gone astray, &c.
1. No Body can tell what it is that they call the Church, till they tell us: But what ever it is, except confirmed Angels and Souls in Heaven, if they cannot Err, God and our Saviour, and the Apostles have Erred. For they tell us that, [we know but in part,] and if any Man say that he hath no Sin, he is a Lyar,