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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 Eighth 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.
So that nothing hath been more Visible, than that there have still been professed Christians, and so an Universal visible Church on Earth. But which parts of this Church have de facto been Sound, and which Corrupt, and what Errors have nullified their Profession, and what only blemished it, this hath never been visible ⟨p. 54⟩to the Erroneous; (For no man knoweth that he Erreth;) but it hath been visible to the Sound. And so, that the Church of Rome yet Professeth Christianity, we know: But whether their Errors prove them Babylon, or nullify their Christianity, must be known only by trying the guilty Individuals.
So that nothing hath been more Visible, than that there have still been professed Christians, and so an Universal visible Church on Earth. But which parts of this Church have de facto been Sound, and which Corrupt, and what Errours have nullified their Profession, and what only blemisht it, this hath never been visible ⟨p. 54⟩to the Erroneous; (For no man knoweth that he Erreth;) but it hath been visible to the Sound. And so, that the Church of Rome yet Professeth Christianity, we know: But whether their Errours prove them Babylon, or nullifie their Christianity, must be known only by trying the guilty Individuals.
Here the Cheaters say to the Ignorant, If the Church hath been always Visible, where was your Church before Luther?
Ans. 1. Where-ever there were men professing Christianity and Baptized, and not Apostatizing. Were there none such in the World, must we be put to prove where there were any Christians before Luther? Were not the Hearers grossly Ignorant, the Cheaters would have no Confidence in such Fopperies as these.