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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.
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.
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 grosly Ignorant, the Cheaters would have no Confidence in such Fopperies as these.
Obj. But the Church of Rome profest Christianity before Luther.
Ans. It did so, and as Christians we are of the same Church with them, we know no Universal Church, but the Christian as such, that is, all Christians as only Headed by Christ If you cannot tell whether before Luther there were any Christians in the World, (in Abyssinia, Egypt, Syria, Armenia, the Greeks, Muscovites, &c.) it's your gross ignorance of History.