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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.
§. 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.
§. 10. Some of the present Professors of the Christian Religion, do differ about the authority of some few Writings called Apocrypha, whether they are to be numbered with the Canonical Books of God, or not: But those few containing in them no considerable points of doctrine different from the rest, the ⟨p. 208⟩controversy doth not very much concern the substance or doctrinal matter of their Religion.
§. 10. Some of the present Professors of the Christian Religion, do differ about the authority of some few Writings called Apocrypha, whether they are to be numbred with the Canonical Books of God, or not: But those few containing in them no considerable points of doctrine different from the rest, the ⟨p. 208⟩controversie doth not very much concern the substance or doctrinal matter of their Religion.