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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 Tenth point accused.
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.
The Tenth point accused.
That the Churches Unity, is not necessary in al• p•i•ts of Faith.
That the Churches Ʋnity, is not necessary in al• p•i•ts of Faith.
Ans. This we verily hold, for all that God hath revealed in Scripture to be believed, are points of Faith, (if the Word be used intelligibly by these men:) But all the points of Genealogies, Topography, Chronology, Prophecy in Scripture, are revealed to be believed, therefore they are points of Faith; and if Unity in all these is necessary to the Unity of the Church, then no Church on Earth hath Unity: Certainly Rome hath not, whose Commentators and Doctors disagree about many hundred Texts of Scripture, and Sixtus 5th. and Clemens 8th. Popes, about the very Translation of many hundred Texts.
These men must now say, that we are not bound to believe all Gods Word, or else they must confess that their Church hath not Unity.