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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.
§. 7. The CHRISTIAN RELIGION containeth two Parts: 1. All Theological Verities which are of Natural Revelation. 2. Much more which is supernaturally revealed. The supernatural Revelation is said in it to be partly written by God, partly delivered by Angels, partly by inspired Prophets and Apostles, and partly by Jesus Christ himself in person.
§. 8. The supernatural Revelation reciteth most of the Natural, because the searching of the great Book of Nature, is a long and difficult work, for the now-corrupted, dark and slothful mind of the common sort of men.
§. 8. The supernatural Revelation reciteth most of the Natural, because the searching of the great Book of Nature, is a long and difficult work, for the now-corrupted, dark and slothfull minde of the common sort of men.
§. 9. These supernatural Revelations are all contained, 1. Most copiously in a Book called, The Holy Bible, or Canonical Scriptures. 2. More summarily and contractedly, in three Forms, called, The Belief, The Lords Prayer, and the Ten Commandments: and most briefly and summarily, in a Sacramental Covenant: This last containeth all the Essential parts most briefly; and the second somewhat fuller explaineth them; and the first (the holy Scriptures) containeth also all the Integral parts, or the whole frame.
§. 9. These supernatural Revelations are all contained, 1. Most copiously in a Book called, The Holy Bible, or Canonical Scriptures. 2. More summarily and contractedly, in three Forms, called, The Belief, The Lords Prayer, and the Ten Commandements: and most briefly and summarily, in a Sacramental Covenant: This last containeth all the Essential parts most briefly; and the second somewhat fuller explaineth them; and the first (the holy Scriptures) containeth also all the Integral parts, or the whole frame.