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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.
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12. Did this Deceiver ever hear Protestants say, that the Apocalypse, and Daniel, and Ezekiel, and the Canticles, and the Chronologies of Scripture, are all easy to be understood? For if he have heard such a Fool, did he ever read this in the Confessions of any Church? Do not their Commentaries tell the difficulty? And ask this Man or his fellow Creature, whether the Infallible Pope, or Councils, have overcome all these difficulties to the Papists, and made all this easy to them? Or do not their Voluminous disagreeing Commentaries, and Controversies, show that they are still as hard to them as to us.
12. Did this Deceiver ever hear Protestants say, that the Apocalypse, and Daniel, and Ezekiel, and the Canticles, and the Chronologies of Scripture, are all easy to be understood? For if he have heard such a Fool, did he ever read this in the Confessions of any Church? Do not their Commentaries tell the difficulty? And ask this Man or his fellow Creature, whether the Infallible Pope, or Councils, have overcome all these difficulties to the Papists, and made all this easy to them? Or do not their Valuminous disagreeing Commentaries, and Controversies, shew that they are still as hard to them as to us.
13. And ask them whether Pope, or Council, have ever yet written an Infallible Commentary on the Bible, or all such difficult Texts? If not, is it because they cannot, or because they will not? And what the better then is their Church for their feigned skill and power, infallibly to decide difficult Scripture Controversies? What can be more shameless than this pretence, in Men that will not do it, nor ever did?
14. And if still they tell you; that the people were always bound to believe and obey the Churches Rites, without dispute or Contradiction; ask them whether it was not the Church Rulers that killed Christ, and called him a Blasphemer and Deceiver, and that Persecuted and accused the Apostles? And whether the People were bound to believe them, (as Jewish Papists,) and whether all the Apostles and Christians were Rebels and Heretics, for not believing them? And whether it was not for the Sins of Priests and Princes, and the peoples complying with them, that God by his Prophets reproved the Israelites, and at last forsook them to Captivity, 2 Chron. last.