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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 Fourth 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.
I call that Natural Evidence, which ariseth from such necessary Causes that cannot be otherwise, nor can deceive: And I call that the best Moral Evidence, which cometh from Mens testimony of greatest credit for skill and honesty, and we have both these.
Mans Soul hath some necessary acts that cannot but be, and cannot be otherwise: Such is sensation of sensible objects duly presented; Intellectual perception of things presented according to the evidence in which they appear: The Love of our selves and our own known welfare, and any thing that is known to be an only and necessary means thereto, and hath Omnimodam ratiomem boni: The Love of Truth as Truth, and Good as Good: The hatred of misery, &c. These all Men have as men, and that which dependeth on these dependeth not only on mens honesty. And our evidence of Tradition is such as this. It is from the Common Consent of all capable Witnesses, of various Opinions, Passions and Interests, Friends and Foes; whereas the Tradition of Sectarian Papists, dependeth on the Credit of one Sect, that falsely pretend a peculiar trust with both Scripture and Tradition, tho' against the greater part of Christians: ⟨p. 24⟩And pretend Fanatically that even ignorant Popes and Prelates in Council, have a gift of infallible knowledge.
Mans Soul hath some necessary acts that cannot but be, and cannot be otherwise: Such is sensation of sensible objects duely presented; Intellectual perception of things presented according to the evidence in which they appear: The Love of our selves and our own known welfare, and any thing that is known to be an only and necessary means thereto, and hath Omnimodam ratiomem boni: The Love of Truth as Truth, and Good as Good: The hatred of misery, &c. These all Men have as men, and that which dependeth on these dependeth not only on mens honesty. And our evidence of Tradition is such as this. It is from the Common Consent of all capable Witnesses, of various Opinions, Passions and Interests, Friends and Foes; whereas the Tradition of Sectarian Papists, dependeth on the Credit of one Sect, that falsly pretend a peculiar trust with both Scripture and Tradition, tho' against the greater part of Christians: