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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.
Reader, is it not worse than Infidelity that these Men teach, if they say that the Church hath not Erred? Was it no Error when Aaron set them up the Golden-Calf? nor when they went after the Idols of the Heathen, and worshipped in the High places? Was it no Error to take Christ for a Deceiver and Blasphemer, worthy to be Crucified? Was it no Error to reject the Gospel, and persecute the Apostles?
And had the Apostles no Error, when they believed not that Christ must Die for our Sins, and rise again, and ascend to Heaven, but thought he must then set up an Earthly Kingdom? Was it no Error of Peter, Math. 16. to dissuade Christ from Suffering, for which Christ said, Get thee behind me Satan, thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of Men? And I think he Erred, when Paul openly rebuked his Separation, Gal. 2.
And had the Apostles no Error, when they believed not that Christ must Die for our Sins, and rise again, and ascend to Heaven, but thought he must then set up an Earthly Kingdom? Was it no Error of Peter, Math. 16. to disswade Christ from Suffering, for which Christ said, Get thee behind me Sathan, thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of Men? And I think he Erred, when Paul openly rebuked his Separation, Gal. 2.
If all the Church on Earth consist only of persons that have many Errors, then the whole Church hath many Errors: But the Antecedent is so true, that I take him that denieth it, to be so far from knowing what the Church is, or what a Christian is, that he knoweth not what a Man is,