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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 One and Fiftieth 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 One and Fiftieth accused Point.
That Blessing or signing with the sign of the Cross, is not founded in Holy Scripture.
Ans. The man would not tell you whether he mean the Lawfulness of the Cross only, or also the necessity of using it. But what are his Proofs?
1. Rev. 7.3. Hurt not the Earth, nor the Trees, till we have sealed, (we read ⟨p. 171⟩signed,) the Servants of our God in their foreheads.
Is here any mention of Crossing or Blessing with the Cross? An Angel in prophetical Vision, is bid to mark or seal the Servants of God, as those that are not to be destroyed, when God commissioneth other Angels to destroy the Persecutors: Therefore the Priest must sign all Christians with the Cross. And I would they did not infer as one did from