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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.
17. Doth not all the Word of God cry down Ignorance, and cry up Knowledge, from End to End? And what Knowledge is it, but Divine, of the Word and Law of God? What else is the scope of all ⟨p. 16⟩the first Nine Chapters of Solomons Proverbs, and of Psal. 1. 19. and 119, &c. God saith, Hos. 4. 6. My People perish for lack of knowledge: And Isa. 27. 11. It is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them will not save them. Ignorance and Blindness are made the common cause of Error, Sin and Misery.
17. Doth not all the Word of God cry down Ignorance, and cry up Knowledge, from End to End? And what Knowledge is it, but Divine, of the Word and Law of God? What else is the scope of all ⟨p. 16⟩the first Nine Chapters of Solomons Proverbs, and of Psal. 1. 19. and 119, &c. God saith, Hos. 4. 6. My People perish for lack of knowledge: And Isa. 27. 11. It is a people of no understanding, therefore he that made them will not save them. Ignorance and Blindness are made the common cause of Errour, Sin and Misery.
But we are so far from taking all parts of Scripture to be equally necessary to be understood, that we are more than the Papists for first and most diligently teaching them the Essentials, the Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Commandments, and Baptism, and Church Communion, and the Lord's Supper, and lesser parts as they grow up; what they must learn first their Teachers must instruct them.