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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
Part 2 › Chapter 3: Of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION: and First, What it is.
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.
CHAP. III. Of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION: and First, What it is.
1§. 1. IV. THE last sort of Religion to be enquired into, is CHRISTIANITY: in which by the Providence of God I was educated, and at first received it by a humane Faith, upon the word and reverence of my Parents and Teachers, being unable in my Childhood rationally to try its grounds and evidences.
- 1What the Christian Religion is, judge not by the intruded opinions of any Sect, but by the ancient Creeds and Summaries, which elsewhere I have recited out of Tertullian and other ancients; and which you may find recited or referr'd to in Usher and Vossius, de Symb.What the Christian Religion is, judge not by the intruded opinions of any Sect, but by the ancient Creeds and Summaries, which elsewhere I have recited out of Tertullian and other ancients; and which you may finde recited or referr'd to in Usher and Vossius, de Symb.
I shall declare to the Reader just in what Order I have received the Christian Religion, that the Inquisition being the more clear and particular, the satisfaction may be the ⟨p. 205⟩