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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.
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 ⟨p. 105⟩that none can know them asunder? No, not the man that hath had them both? And why doth God so often call on Believers to Rejoice, if they cannot know whether they shall be in Heaven and Hell for ever? If you say, he is not sure to persevere, many Papists grant that the Confirmed may. And why may not Bradford, Hooper, Sanders, and Thousands else, that are Dying by the Sacred blood-thirsty Church, be assured when they are Dying, that they have forsaken Life and all for Christ.
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 ⟨p. 105⟩that none can know them asunder? No, not the man that hath had them both? And why doth God so aften call on Believers to Rejoyce, if they cannot know whether they shall be in Heaven and Hell for ever? If you say, he is not sure to persevere, many Papists grant that the Confirmed may. And why may not Bradford, Hooper, Sanders, and Thousands else, that are Dying by the Sacred blood-thirsty Church, be assured when they are Dying, that they have forsaken Life and all for Christ.