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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.
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For Example: If there were a doubt raised, Whether there be any such City in the World as Rome, Paris, Vienna? or whether there was ever such persons as K. James, K. Charles, Ludovicus 14▪ of France, &c.? Or whether the Statutes in our Books were really made by the Kings and Parliaments named in them, and be the same unchanged, &c. There is Natural evidence of all this, because it ariseth from necessary acts: All sorts of men of contrary interests could never agree to lie and deceive men in such cases, no more than they could all agree to kill themselves: And if some would be falsifyers, the rest would presently detect and shame them: If any Lawyers would falsyfie or change the Statutes, others would presently manifest the deceit, they being commonly known, and the cross interests of so many depending on them; yea, I say not only that this is Natural Infallible Evidence, but that it is more than very much other Physical Evidence of many other things; because we have better means to know Mans Natural necessary acts, than we have to ⟨p. 25⟩know most other Creatures of God.