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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 Thirtieth 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 Thirtieth accused Point.
That no Saint Deceased, hath after appeared to any on Earth.
Ans. A mere false Calumny. What Protestant Confessions have any such Article? How know we what hath been done of that kind in all the World to this day? Read but Dr. More, and Mr. Glanvils Books of Apparitions, and Mr. Ambrose, and Mr. Lawrence's Books of our Communion with Angels. Read Zanchius, Luther, Melanchthon, Manlius, Lavalu, &c. and you may see that this is no Protestant assertion. We know that Christ appeared to Saul, and that many Bodies of Saints arose at Christs Death, and appeared to many: And what the Witch of Endor showed as Samuel, we know not: We only say, 1. That it is much liker that Apparitions are oftest made by Devils or bad Spirits that dwell in the lower Regions, than that blessed Spirits come from Heaven. 2. But yet seeing Angels thence appear, we cannot say that Holy Souls never do. 3. But that God will not have it to be any ordinary or trusty means for Men's Salvation: For we cannot know when it is a Holy Soul, and when a Devil: And they that will not believe Moses and the Prophets, (and Christ,) neither will they believe tho' one rose from the Dead: It's no Article of our Faith, that they ever did appear or ⟨p. 116⟩not. And if these men think otherwise, why must this Opinion more than Ten thousand such, be obtruded as necessary on all others?