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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.
To assure our selves of our Salvation [may mean, to give all diligence to make our Salvation infallibly sure: This every one ought to do.]
Or it may mean, that every man ought to believe it as an infallible Truth, that he shall be saved.] The next Sentence seemeth to make this his meaning in the first: Which if it be, he is a false Calumniator of the Reformed Churches.
But if the first be his meaning, and he deny it, he is an open Enemy to Man's Salvation.
What is all the Scripture for, and all our Religion, but to make sure of our Salvation? 2 Pet. 1. 10. Give all diligence to make your Calling and Election sure. And if no man can be sure, to what purpose hath God made so many promises of it, expressing the Conditions, (to them that believe, that love God, that forsake all for him,) if no man can know whether he perform the Condition, and that he is within this promise? Why doth God lay down so many signs to difference the Children of God from the Children of the Devil, if they cannot be discerned? Sure Heaven and Hell be not like; and yet are the Heirs of Heaven and Hell undistinguishable? Is the Image of God and the Devil so like