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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 Third 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.
Ans. Mere Cheat to the Ignorant, by confusion and falsehood.
Ans. Meer Cheat to the Ignorant, by confusion and falshood.
1. We and all Papists with us agree, (the more is the Guilt of the Deceivers Fraud,) that some of the Scripture is easy to be understood, and is actually understood by all true Christians, even all that is essential to Christianity, and necessary to Salvation. Bellarmine, Castrus, and many others, tell us, that for all that, ⟨p. 9⟩the Scripture is plain and sufficient: Yea, so it is, in many Thousand particular Texts: If this be not so, let this Man tell us if he can, how it cometh to pass, that Papists, Greeks, and Protestant Commentators agree of the meaning of most of the Scripture, (perhaps of Nineteen Texts in Twenty,) if it be not plain.
1. We and all Papists with us agree, (the more is the Guilt of the Deceivers Fraud,) that some of the Scripture is easy to be understood, and is actually understood by all true Christians, even all that is essentsal to Christianity, and necessary to Salvation. Bellarmine, Castrus, and many others, tell us, that for all that, ⟨p. 9⟩the Scripture is plain and sufficient: Yea, so it is, in many Thousand particular Texts: If this be not so, let this Man tell us if he can, how it cometh to pass, that Papists, Greeks, and Protestant Commentators agree of the meaning of most of the Scripture, (perhaps of Nineteen Texts in Twenty,) if it be not plain.
But do Protestants say, that there is nothing in the Scripture hard to be understood? the Father of Lies will scarce affirm this of them, lest their Commentaries and Controversies shame him.