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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 Five and Twentieth 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.
The Five and Twentieth accused Point.
That every one ought Infallibly to assure himself of his Salvation, and to believe that he is of the number of the Predestinate.
Ans. I would fain excuse the man as far as I can, and therefore I hope, that as the man was excusable that did eat Snakes for Snigs, (or Eels,) so he read some Pamphlet of an Antinomian, either Crisp or Saltmarsh, or some other such, or talked with some of their silly Novices, and thought he had Conversed with the Reformed Catholics, or read the Confessions of the Reformed Churches.
Ans. I would fain excuse the man as far as I can, and therefore I hope, that as the man was excusable that did eat Snakes for Snigs, (or Eels,) so he read some Pamphlet of an Antimonian, either Crisp or Saltmarsh, or some other such, or talkt with some of their silly Novices, and thought he had Convers'd with the Reformed Catholicks, or read the Confessions of the Reformed Churches.
The first Sentence is a Fundamental Truth, and a damnable Falsehood, as the Equivocal words are variously understood. And is it not pity that the Priests of the Infallible Church, should put things so different into the same words, and that in an accusation of so many Churches and Nations; when yet God himself is feigned by them to write by his Spirit so Unintelligibly, that without these Doctors skilful Exposition, it is but like to make men Heretics, (that is, Adversaries to the Pope and his Clergy.)